【The Meditation Session – Actual Session - how to sustain meditation in general 修持轨理 正行 - 总共修法】 firmly determine the definite order and enumeration of ... Part 2 数量次第，先须决定2
【The Meditation Session – Actual Session - how to sustain meditation in general 】- firmly determine the definite order and enumeration of whatever objects of meditation you wish to sustain Part 2
So, what is the content of “the objects of meditation”? “Enumeration” is the quality and quantity that encompasses the entire content. If the quality is wrong, then there is no point in talking about it. So “enumeration” actually can also be discussed in terms of “quality,” meaning the content and essence must not be flawed. And then “quantity” has to be completely fulfilled. Is it enough with these two? No, “systematic order” is still required. Toward this, complete understanding beforehand is required to “determine the definitive order.”
For example, it should be simple when we cook rice! Cooking rice, of course, you say, “Well! Today, we are cooking rice so we need rice.” You have to make sure not to mistaken wheat for rice, for that will not do! Even if it is rice, the un-hulled rice will not work, needless to say anything else. In Buddhism, there is a common saying of “cooking sand as rice.” If the quality is wrong, no matter how big a pot of sand you are steaming, it is useless! So, the quality has to be accurate. Once it is right, then you cook it. Here [we have] 30 people, and if you cook only one bowl of rice, that’s not enough! The quantity has to be right as well; either too little or too much is not good. Moreover, the systematic order is required too; this has been mentioned many times before. With regards to this, it needs to be defined first, it needs to be determined.
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24A 25’33” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P268 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P99
日常师父法语📡24A 25’33” 手抄稿第3册P268 LL2
修持轨理 正行 - 总共修法 : 数量次第，先须决定2
“所缘境”它的内容是什么？“数量”，这是质跟量，包含整个的内容。如果说这个质不对的话，那个根本不谈，所以“数量”两个字实际上呢也可以说，“质”，就内容、体性本身绝对没有错，然后呢“量”要圆满。这个两个够不够？不够，还要“次第”，对于这个，事先先有圆满的认识——“先须决定”。
比如我们就要去烧饭了，那么简单哪！烧饭，当然你说：“哦！今天要烧饭用米。”你一定要弄对哦，这个米弄成麦这个不行的啊！就算同样的米，稻都不行，何况是其他的？佛法里面常常就说“蒸沙煮饭”，如果这个质不对的话，你再一大锅的砂子摆那里蒸，没有用! 所以这个质要对。对啦，然后你就去煮去了。这里人有三十个，你烧了一碗饭，没有用！量还要对，少了固然不行，多了也不好。然后呢次第还要，这个前面已经说过很多了，对这个事先要决定，要决定。