【 The Meditation Session - Preparation 修持轨理-加行】Confession of sins from the depths of your heart “至心”忏悔
【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- Confession of sins from the depths of your heart
By then I will remind you beforehand.
Once you have learned this [i.e have clarity on what is wrong/right] and you apply confession, the effect is instant; the results can be seen immediately. You definitely will not say, “Alas, after trying to practice for ten years or eight years, and then wait until the moment of death to find out if the practitioner’s proper view is clearly distinguished?” No, there is no need to be like that - waiting for others to verify for you [at that final moment]. You will be very clear at the given moment. Hence, the sutra taught us: if you practice in the morning, you will notice by nighttime – notice what? The improvement. If you apply the practice at night, in the morning you will notice [the effect]. Why wait until tomorrow morning? With your proper perception at the given moment, you are already clearly aware. Thus, this is how to accumulate merit, and it applies to repenting negative karmic deeds, as well.
When you can do this, [you will practice] “from the depths of your heart”, by then you will be sincere instead of being superficial. Alas! Seeing what I have done wrong in the past and the consequence is so harmful, thus you are unable to bear your own mistakes! By that time, what was taught earlier in the preceding text will start to make sense. It is just like your reflection in the Dharma mirror, reflecting the smudge on your face. Seeing the smudge on [your] face, at most, people will look at it and say: “Why do you have a smudge?” Now, with the [Dharma mirror] reflecting on your physical and mental smudges, the raging flames of the hell realms await. You can hardly bear it, just like that!
SOURCE 来源 :
23B 04’47” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P237 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P97
日常师父法语📡23B 04’47” 手抄稿第3册P237 LL6
修持轨理-加行 : “至心”忏悔
那时候我还可以事先告诉你。
假定你们学会了这个去忏悔的话，立刻见效，马上见效。绝对不要说，哎呀，弄了个十年、八年，那时看临终的时候，看看他到那个时候是不是正念分明？不，用不着，用不着别人来看你，你自己当下就清清楚楚。所以经上告诉我们，说你早晨修，你晚上就晓得，晓得什么？进步了。你晚上修，明天早晨就晓得。何必等到明天早晨？你当下修的一 (p238) 念，你已经很清楚了。所以积聚功德是如此，忏悔业障也是这个地方。
你能够这样做的话，“至心”，那时候你就至心，真的不会浮浮泛泛了。唉呀！看见我以前做错了，做了错有这么大的害处，你无法容受自己的错误呀！那时候前面讲的话有道理，就像拿那个法镜一照，照你面孔上的黑点，照到面孔上的黑点，最多教人家看了一看，说你怎么黑的？现在你照到身心上这个黑点的话，这个地狱的猛火就等在这个地方喔，你简直受不了，这样啊！