【The Meditation Session – Actual Session - how to sustain meditation in general 】- The force of pulling in front and pushing from behind

This is the force that pulls you forward. Even if it were powerful enough, the force pushing from behind is still required. Sometimes we will fall backwards. The author tells you the faults of not relying on a virtuous teacher, and that will lead to present and future great sufferings. Wow! With this thought of yours, you will not refrain from relying [on virtuous teacher]. Hence, with the pushing force behind and the pulling force in front, how can achievement be impossible? It is definitely possible! For the same reason, even if we don’t have this experience in studying Buddha Dharma, this mental force of ours is definitely available! For instance, if you were told to ingest this cup of deadly poison, of course we won’t take it. Or there is a kind of poison that blowing in the wind and will poison you. You can hardly wait to escape. This has to be the reaction, right? When you were told to come here [toward the poison], “Well, no way!” This is the pushing force from behind. When you contemplate the great harm of relying on a nonvirtuous teacher, you will want to hide from him when you see him.

SOURCE 来源 :

24B 8’27” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P275 L9
English Lamrim Vol 1 P100

日常师父法语📡24B 8’27手抄稿第3册P275 L9

修持轨理 正行 - 总共修法 : 前拉后推的力量

那么这个是前面拉的力量，容或够了，但是后面还要一样—推的力量。有的时候我们会向后面退，他就告诉你，如果你不亲近善知识有些什么害处，说这个害处能够引发现在的、后在的大苦。喔哟！你一想到这个，你就不敢不去亲近了。所以后面有推的力量，前面有拉的力量，哪有不成功的？决定可以成功！同样的道理，佛法上面虽然没有这种感受，但是我们心里这个能力是千真万确！譬如说这个地方一杯毒药叫你吃进去要死的，当然我们不要去吃；或者说这个毒药的话，风吹的话，马上吹过来让你中毒的，你赶快逃都来不及。一定是这样对不对？叫你来，[嘿，不可以！]这是后面推的力量。当你想到亲近这个恶知识，对你有这么大的害处的话，你一碰见他躲得远远的。