【The Meditation Session – Actual Session - how to sustain meditation in general 修持轨理 正行 - 总共修法】safeguard the mind 将护这颗心
【The Meditation Session – Actual Session - how to sustain meditation in general 】- safeguard the mind
Furthermore, this is virtuous and that is nonvirtuous; upon understanding, I transform myself by mending it. However, due to the latent propensity from beginningless time, you continuously want to protect [the non-virtue]. So, to “focus and protect” is to safeguard it and repeatedly mend, practice again and again to refine it. In the past, the mind was constantly in a distracted state throughout the day or clinging to something. Now, you want to avert it from non-virtue, and sustain it on virtue without wavering, to make it serviceable according to your aspiration – to be under your control, just [focusing on] this one task.
Now you want to recite the name of “Amitabha Buddha”, you want to visualize “Amitabha Buddha”, what were we mindful of in the past? It was none other than attachment, hostility, or ignorance. Now, these are unwanted and need to be replaced with mindfulness of immeasurable light and longevity [Amitabha Buddha’s other name]. Then we practice these. [The mind] won’t listen to you – you repeatedly bring it back, sustain and abide on this mindfully, and do not waver, right? Isn’t it so? Well! That is it. It doesn’t matter what your chosen practice is, if you are practicing Zen, no, don’t visualize [Amitabha Buddha] but visualize something else. “Who is the one mindful of the Buddha?” “What is the sign of true self?” “Where does the one reduce to?” “All phenomena are reduced to one, where does the one reduce to?” Then Zhao-zho [Chinese ancient Zen Master] said, “What is non-ness?” All of these can be subsumed into one phrase: the past habit of conforming to the three mental poisons is replaced by focusing on these [mindful contemplations].
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24A 10’45” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P260 LL1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P99
日常师父法语📡24A 10’45”手抄稿第3册P260 LL1
修持轨理 正行 - 总共修法 : 将护这颗心
那么，现在说这个是善的、这个是恶的，我了解了把它改过来，修改过来。可是，因为它的无比的习性，无始以来的习性摆在那里，所以你不断地去保护它，“将护”的意思就是保护它，不断地修、练习，练习这个事情。它以前那个心，一天在散乱当中，或者缘这个，现在呢你要把那个心从恶的拉过来，使得它安住在这个善的上面能够不动，像你所希望的——要它怎么样就怎么样，就是这一件事情。