【The Meditation Session – Actual Session - how to sustain meditation in general 】- sustain your meditation with mindfulness and vigilance Part 2

This is all the great masters’ personal experience and there are no exceptions. This requires having a very clear understanding of each subjective aspect. And various preparations ahead of time are needed. By then, your mindfulness and vigilance become very clear and easy to uphold and attainment follows! “Sustain your meditation with mindfulness and vigilance,” this kind of practice is proper and flawless. The text also includes “what you have determined,” which is like what you have decided to do earlier, without exceeding or falling short. Falling short will not work, neither should we exceed it, there is a lot to learn about it! Later, the text will reveal to us the reason.

Thus, this is the overall outline for applying the teaching, the entire framework. This is the outline, the overall framework; before understanding the specific details, we are not ready to talk about meditation. We may not be ready to talk about the narrower sense of meditation yet. However, in the broader sense, we are meditating [i.e practicing Dharma] now. Our overall process of knowing and understanding is within “listening” to the teaching – from listening.

Besides how to listen, there is also how to contemplate and how to apply the teaching.

SOURCE 来源 :

24B 04’05” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P273 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P100

日常师父法语📡24B 04’05”手抄稿第3册P273 L6

修持轨理 正行 - 总共修法 : 应具足忆念正知2

这个大祖师们，每一个人的过来的经验，没有一个例外的。这必定要对于这个每一个地方的行相了解得非常地清楚，而这个之前还要各式各样的准备。到那个时候的话，你那个正念跟正知，这么清楚、这么明白就提得起来，提得起来的，就能够成就！是“应具足忆念正知”，这个是正修习，对了，如法的一点都不错。下面又补两句，“如所决定”，像你前面所决定的，不要增、也不要减。少了固然不行，多了也不要。这是个大学问喔！后面会告诉我们为什么。

那么这个是整个的修学的全部的纲要，全部的纲要。这个地方是个总纲，这是个总纲，真正的细目还没有摸清楚之前，我们还谈不到修。狭义的修谈不到，可是广义的我们正在修，我们整个地认识了解这件事情就是在闻当中，在闻、听闻。然后呢，如何听闻，如何思惟，如何照着去做？