【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- Dedication has a very special effect.

【Cultivating delight in the virtue that you have done--which is part of rejoicing--will also increase your virtue. 】

This was mentioned earlier; self-rejoicing is also encouraged and can be applied toward others too.

【You may have few virtues as a result of accumulation, purification, and increase, but you will expand them enormously through dedication. 】

Dedication has a very special effect. Often for us, like what has mentioned above, regardless of whether we are purifying obscurations, accumulating the collections, or increasing the virtuous roots, usually the virtue is minor. If you can dedicate to continuously multiply the petty actions, [the virtue] can even be increased immeasurably. Thus, this point is very crucial! However, up to now, this “dedication” is easy to say but not so easy to practice by us now, not too easy. The reason for it being difficult is that we do not know how - lack the knowledge for how to dedicate.

We cannot say that we do not know! At the end of every session, saying, “Oops, forgot to dedicate.” Everybody stands up and recites the four or eight verses. You can’t say that you don’t know [about dedication]. However, does the mental stream conform to the verse? [You] do not know how to conform to it. In this regard, [the understanding of dedication] is still not quite there yet.

SOURCE 来源 :

23B 20’33” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P246 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P98

日常师父法语📡23B 20’33”手抄稿第3册P246 L4

修持轨理-加行 : 回向有非常特殊的功效

【随喜支中一分，于自造善，修欢喜者，亦是增长自所作善。】

刚才已经说过了，对自己作的善随喜也可以，对别人也可以。

【其回向者，是使积集，净治长养诸善，虽极微少，令增广多。】

回向有非常特殊的功效。平常我们，上面所说的，不管净治罪障也好，积聚资粮也好，乃至于增长这个善根也好，平常那个善很小。你如果能够回向的话，它把很小的东西呀，继续地增长，乃至于增长到无尽，所以这一点非常重要！不过这说到这里，这个“回向”两个字，讲好容易，做的话，对我们现在来说的话，不大容易。不大容易的原因—不晓得，不晓得怎么个回向法。

我们不能说不晓得哦！每次完了以后说：“哦，回向忘记掉了。”大家站起来念它四句跟八句。你不能说他不晓得呀，但是真的身心相续和合吗？不晓得怎么去和合法，就这 (p247) 一点来说，还没有。