【Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation】- the direct antidote for excitement is disenchantment

Recognize the faults and flaws of impermanence, suffering and the like in the mundane world. By then, this excitement will be easily eliminated. Why? The reason for excitement is that you see this object and think it is great and it is good! Thus, the attachment dominates, and your imagination runs wild. Now, seeing that this object actually is good for nothing and has great faults. If you were told not to eliminate it, you can’t help but remove it. So what is the direct antidote for this? Disenchantment. And “impermanence and suffering” are the best remedy to become disenchanted. The reason you are not able to renounce it is that you see its advantage. Now that you see its great faults, of course, you will be disenchanted. Hence, all scriptures praise and expound on this in all aspects. Scriptures are actually the reports from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas about their own experiences – those experienced ones share the same recognition. So, from here, we will know that, as long as you are able to cultivate these two [to counter laxity and excitement], then naturally when you are meditating and laxity arises, well, analyze [the good qualities of the Three Jewels] and the mind is immediately uplifted. Once excitement arises, immediately switch to analyze [impermanent or suffering], and immediately calm the mind, it becomes pacified. In this situation, the meditative concentration will naturally become very easy to attain.

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29A 28’13” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P162 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P114

日常师父法语📡29A 28’13”手抄稿第4册P162 LL6

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