【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- Elderly farmer asking for a harvest on what they sowed

Thus, Venerable Yin-guang specifically said that, if you tell an elderly country farmer, a gardener or farmhand: “You just go ahead sow the seeds and don’t expect to harvest.” After all your effort in planting, not asking for a harvest, who would do such a thing? I believe all of you sitting here would not be willing to do so, right? At least for me, I definitely wouldn’t do it. Why work hard for no benefit at all? Actual Buddha Dharma is absolutely not like this! So we know true Buddha Dharma is just the opposite, it tells you that this is very difficult, but if you persist in it, there will bring you incredibly great and special benefits! Just like that. So in the very beginning when you give it a try, sure, you don’t feel like it, and it’s so hard. Later, when you recognize it to have such huge benefits. The more you think about it, the better it gets! Later on, all genuine benefits for you are included. By that time, if you were told to quit, it would be impossible for you to stop. Hence, the actual proficiency of Buddha Dharma is its precise approach and orderly guidance for you.

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34A 12’43”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P44 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P134

日常师父法语📡34A 12’43”手抄稿第5册P44 L1

道次引导 : 老农种田问收获

所以印光大师特别说，乡下一个老农、老圃，这种田人，你告诉他：“你只要去种，你不要去问收获。”结果你种了半天，不问收获，谁愿意去做这个事情？我想在座的人，大概不一定愿意吧？至少要我的话，我绝不愿意做这个事情，辛苦了半天，一点好处都没有，干什么？真正的佛法绝不这样的！所以我们了解，真正的佛法恰恰相反，它告诉你，这件事情是非常艰难的，但是你做下去有非常殊胜的好处，这个好处是不得了的好啊！就这样。所以刚开头试的时候，是，你不想，这么难；后来你想这个事情有这么大的好处，你越想越好、越想越好！到后来发现，你所有真正的好处都还在这个里边，那个时候，叫你不做你也办不到。所以它真正佛法的善巧，它每一个地方，它有最正确的方法、次第引导你的。