【Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation】- The biggest reason that we are not able to practice

The biggest reason that we are not able to practice now is that we have never reflected on impermanence and suffering before. Not recognizing that this is a world of suffering, thus we are unable to let go. If you recognize suffering, it’s impossible for you not to let go. If there is a cup of arsenic in front of you and, even though you didn’t take it, you realize that, by taking it, you will immediately bleed from all the seven orifices [of your head] and experience excruciating pain. If you mix it with ten kilos of honey, or regardless of whether it is hot sauce or butter, for you to take it, are you willing to do so? If it were put in front of you, you would run away immediately. Why? You know that this is suffering. Then there is the impermanence. Although it is necessary to apply it in meditation, yet one takes it slowly. If you realize that our life is impermanent and that death could come tomorrow, you will drop everything. Others may say, “So and so, there are still two million dollars in the bank that needs to be taken care of.” “What two million, even 20 million is none of my business!” I have to hurry up with the chanting of Buddha’s name as the most urgent matter. Why? By then, when your view of impermanence arises, with the true understanding of suffering, you definitely will have no obstacles [to apply the teaching]. That is why now we often say: that we need to seek profound teachings, seeking this or that. Why are we unable to achieve it? It is due to the foundation has not been established. Here, the author clearly tells us the order of the stages. Thus, there are many, many things that all require contemplation and analysis.

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28A 13’28” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P120 LL5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P111

日常师父法语📡28A 13’28”手抄稿第4册P

破除此中邪妄分别 : 没办法修行的最大的原因。。。

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