【The Meditation Session – Actual Session - how to sustain meditation in general 】- Restraint on finding others’ faults

【Then, think, many times and with an attitude of restraint, 】

Restraint is to stop past wrongdoings. What was wrong with them? That is, [we] always focus on finding others’ faults. Now, this attitude should be done away with!

【 “I will never allow myself to conceive of faults in my guru.” 】

As for conceiving of the Guru’s faults, one should never have this attitude within. If it arises, one must remove it. This is why we have to pay constant attention! Why do the Bodhisattva vows specifically remind us to “speak of the faults of the four types of followers” and why should “self-commending and slandering others” definitely be avoided! What are the four types of followers? Monks, Nuns, novice Monks, and novice Nuns. They are part of the Three Jewels and they represent the pure insignia. If you criticize [their] faults, well, right on the spot, it is actually harming us. However now we always, well, sit down and chat nothing but these topics [of fault finding]. Ah, it is wrong! Now, if you can avoid all of these, naturally it will be easier for you to avoid [to find faults] with the virtuous teachers.

SOURCE 来源 :

24B 10’03” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P276 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P100

日常师父法语📡24B 10’03” 手抄稿第3册P276 L7

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【次应多起防护之心。】

防护，以前错的不要。以前错在哪里啊？专门看他的缺点，现在不可以！

【谓不容蓄，分别尊长过失之心。】

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