【The Meditation Session – Actual Session - how to sustain meditation in general 】- The causes are from previous lives

Most of us who understand some scriptural teachings will know, what are the conditions for our current state in this life? The causes are from previous lives. Due to certain causes, certain effects are obtained in this life. The fruitional causes from previous lives produce the fruitional effects. The causally concordant causes from previous lives produce causally concordant effects in this lifetime.

Regarding this concept, I believe the majority of us may not quite understand it yet. What do these two [cause and effect] mean? The fruitional cause is where you have developed virtuous or nonvirtuous deeds that result in you being born as a human, deity, hell being, hungry ghost, or animal respectively in this life. A causally concordant cause is the condition where you are engaging the deed, and now the same condition arises within [us] again. If we never engaged in these deeds previously, we will not have taken the path as a monastic in this lifetime. Some say that a few hundred years ago, a few thousand years ago; everyone considered that renunciates were the best, so we also took the same path. Whereas in this society, now people think, “This is superstition, you are all muddled.” Yet you have stubbornly chosen to take this path. I believe without any specific cause we would not have done so, right! It is very obvious. Why did we take this path? There must be a cause and condition from previous lives.

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24A 22’02” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P266 LL1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P99

日常师父法语📡24A 22’02” 手抄稿第3册P266 LL1

修持轨理 正行 - 总共修法 : 宿生的因

我们平常稍微了解一点教理的人，大家都了解，我们这一生所以感得现在的状态是什么？宿生的因哪，由这样的因感得这一生的果；宿生的这个异熟因感得这个异熟果，宿生的等流因感得这一生的等流果。

关于这一点我想大部分的人还听不懂。这两个什么意思？异熟因，就是你那个时候造了善恶之业，感得这一生的人身、天身、地狱、饿鬼、畜牲这个。等流因，那你做的时候什么状态，现在这个心里面又这种状态现起来。假定我们宿生没有感得这个业的话，我们这一生不会跑上那个出家的路。如果说几百年以前，几千年以前大家都说出家好，我们也是就说出家。现在这个社会上面人家都说“这个迷信，你又大迷糊蛋”，结果你就偏偏走这个路子，没有一点特别的原因我想我们不会走，对吧！很明白。为什么我们走了?宿生一定有这个原因在这个地方。