【Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation】- Eliminate our misconceptions

【b. Refuting misconceptions about meditation】

With the things we just mentioned earlier, even with examples such as our dieting habits, in the previous examples, we can casually contemplate them. The question is not how hard it is to transform, but that we cannot eliminate our misconceived discernment. If you don’t eliminate this concept, then whatever you do, the feeling of having been mistreated will always be there and, by then, not much can be done to help you. So many aspects in Buddha’s sutras, we learn that if you don’t properly uphold ethical discipline, when the vows are transgressed, it is possible to mend it. These two aspects: first and the second, my Mandarin is not perfect. The first one is the ethical discipline, which is the precepts that we are upholding, and it is our sign of application. If you are not abiding it well, there is still hope. Needless to say, the Bodhisattvas can help, and we can even save ourselves. If the second conceptual “view” is not intact – in other words, you don’t have the correct view and you are attached to your erroneous view – then even if your sign of application is very good, downfall [to the miserable realms] is certain, this [sign of application] is of no use. So this is the key concept. Therefore, the wrongful discernment here is the mistake. Within all of Buddha Dharma, this is what we have to recognize very clearly. Thus, here, [the 2nd] one is totally wrong and the [1st one] is partially wrong and biased.

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27A 00’06” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P81 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P109

日常师父法语📡27A 00’06”手抄稿第4册P81 L1

破除此中邪妄分别: 去除心中的邪执

【第二破除于此修轨邪执分别者】

我们刚才随便说的一些事情，乃至于譬如说讲饮食，刚才那个譬喻当中，我们可以轻轻松松地想一想。它问题不是说这件事情难改，而是自己的邪执分别去不掉，如果是这个概念你去不掉的话，你怎么做总觉得还委曲了，那个时候什么都没有用。所以佛经上面处处地方告诉我们，你持戒持不好，破了这个戒还可以，还可以救。这两样东西，第一、第二，我这个国语讲不清楚，第一是戒，就是我们持的戒，就是行相，万一你做不好的话，还可以救。不要说菩萨能救，我们自己还可以能够救。第二见解的[见]破了，换句话说，你没有正知见，你执着你的邪知见的话，就算你行相做得很好，一定堕落，没有用。主要的就是这个，所以这个地方的邪执分别，就是那个错误，整个的佛法，这个我们要认识得非常清楚的就是这一点。那么这个里边有一种完全错误的，有一种错误一部分、偏执的。