【 The Meditation Session - Preparation 修持轨理-加行】if you truly want to confess, you must know what was wrong 真忏悔，一定晓得我什么东西不对
【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- if you truly want to confess, you must know what was wrong
So, if you truly want to confess, you must know what was wrong and be remorseful about it. May [I] ask all of you, when you confess, do you sense any remorse? Even if there is the feeling of remorse, do you know what to be remorseful? If you don’t, can [I] ask you, what kind of confession is it? Also, when you confess wrong deeds, there must be a comparable standard for what is good and correct. At that time, you can measure and compare: oh! This is right, this is wrong. Just like identifying counterfeit bills, by comparing two bills, it is very obvious. So, for your truthful confession, you must recognize clearly the proper signs of application and definitely identify the erroneous signs of practice.
(p237) Thus, at that time, you will realize, “Ah! If I do it right, there are great merits. Otherwise, there will be great harm.” Well! By then, mentally you really feel miserable and have great suffering – this is considered [genuine] confession. It is not just prostrating to the 88 Buddhas every day how many rounds, wow! Furthermore, I bow to a certain sutras word for word! Certainly, there is merit in doing so. Always remember this – I say this is not to belittle these practices, but these are indirect paths. Thus, this is why we often say: many of our merits are contaminated. When you do it right, this is why some practitioners are able to achieve Buddhahood in one lifetime - the reasoning is right in [the teaching] here.
SOURCE 来源 :
23B 02’47’‘ Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P236 L10
English Lamrim Vol 1 P97
日常师父法语📡23B 02’47’‘手抄稿第3册P236 L10
修持轨理-加行 : 真忏悔，一定晓得我什么东西不对
所以你真的要忏悔，一定要晓得我什么东西不对，然后呢懊悔这个。请问大家，忏悔的时候，你有懊悔的心情吗？就是有懊悔，你懂得懊悔些什么吗？假定你不懂得，请问你忏些什么啊？同时你忏悔不对的，一定有好的、对的标准摆在那里，那时候你衡量得出来，才比出来：哦！这个对的，这个是不对的。就像比那假钞票一样，一比，两张钞票，很明白。所以你真正地忏悔，必然是把对的行相清清楚楚，错的行相明明白白。
(p237) 然后那个时候，你晓得：啊！做对了有多大功德，做不对有多大的害处。啊！你那个时候，就是心里面哪好难受喔、好痛苦，这样叫忏悔。不是说，我现在每天拜八十八佛，拜多少遍喏，喔唷！然后呢我拜什么经，一字一拜喔！是有功德的。始终记得这个话，我这个话绝对不是说贬他，但这条路—远路。所以为什么常常说，我们修很多功德是杂染的；你做对的话，为什么他能够一生取办，概念都在这个地方。