【Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation】- To claim that all meditations are stabilizing meditations? Wrong

【because meditation involves both nonanalytical stabilization on the meaning of what you originally intended to practice that was determined through study and reflection and the use of discerning wisdom to analyze this meaning. 】

Because the sequence of our meditation is beginning from study then reflecting, when we apply the accurate meaning that has been determined through study and reflection, in fact, both kinds are required. There is a kind where you don’t need to analyze and reflect, just abide on the object – this is known as stabilizing meditation. The other requires your reflection and analysis of the content. Repeatedly practice [both] in meditation.

【Therefore, to claim that all meditations are stabilizing meditations is like taking one grain of barley and saying, “This is all the barley grains there are.” 】

Therefore, some say that, during meditation, only stabilization is required and you don’t need to discern anything. That is the same as taking one grain of barley and claiming that all grains are the same. This is a mistake. Holding a grain of barley and claiming that it is the only grain, may I ask, is rice a grain? Is sorghum a grain? Based on a similar concept, in order for us to easily understand, I might as well say, “I am a sentient being.” Of course, I am a sentient being; there is no way to mistake this. “Thus, all sentient beings are me” – is this statement correct? If you don’t think about it, [it could be] right! But, if you think about it, then something is not right. I am certainly a sentient being. However, the opposite of it, sentient beings are me, then what about you folks? You are not sentient beings, so you are all logs! Something is wrong with this statement and it is questionable. This we have to know.

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27A 21’53” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P91 LL4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P110

日常师父法语📡27A 21’53”手抄稿第4册P91 LL4

破除此中邪妄分别: 一切修习皆止修？错。

【以于闻思所决择义，现见俱有不观止住，及以观慧思择修故。】

因为我们修行次第是说，从闻、思，对于经过闻思所决定这个正确的意义去修的时候，事实上需要两种。有一种呢你不要多去观察思惟，就安住在这个上头的，这是止修；还有一种呢，关于那个内容你要思惟观察，不断地这样去修的。

【是故若许一切修习皆止修者，如持一麦说一切谷，皆唯是此，等同无异。】

所以有人说修的时候只要止修的，你不要分别，那等于说拿了一个麦，说所有的五谷就是这个了，这个是一个错误的。拿了一个麦，说所有的五谷都是这个，请问稻是不是？高粱是不是？同样的道理，所以为了使我们容易了解起见，我不妨说，[我是有情]，当然我是有情，一点都没有错；[所以有情就是我]，下面这句话对不对？你不去想的，对呀！去想的话，有问题。我是有情没有错，然后呢反过来，有情就是我，那么你们呢？不是有情，所以你们都是木头啊！这个话是有问题的，是有问题的，这一点我们要了解。