【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】-

【Until death, animals strive merely to avoid suffering and achieve happiness. Therefore, if you do this and do not practice the pure teachings for the sake of achieving lasting happiness, then you are like an animal despite being born in a happy realm. 】

Well then we are here to practice the teaching for what? We want happiness. But this is not a lasting [ultimate] happiness. If we say we wish to have real happiness, we should do what? We want to achieve lasting [ultimate] happiness. But this kind of lasting happiness differs from ordinary happiness. For us now, with the happiness we wish for, sufferings will follow. And with a little happiness, we will have great sufferings later. Ah! On the way back yesterday, I saw so many great teachers, so many great teachers on the road! What were they? Did you see them clearly? On the freeway, there was a big truck, trucks after trucks full of them. Ah! When I saw them I couldn’t help but to shed tears! Em, before, I thought only this, “Ah! They have degenerated, it’s so sad for them!” Now when I see them, I exhort myself. They are great teachers to me! As soon as I see them now I would exhort myself, “Jih-Chang! You feel that you are a practitioner, do you look like one?” Ah! I’ve got sweat running down my back. After going back, no matter how tired, no matter how tired, when I get in, I would go bow and prostrate to Buddha, and pray. I still would do these things.

SOURCE 来源 :

30B 12’44” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P208 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P120

日常师父法语📡30B 12’44”手抄稿第4册P208 L6

暇满 : 何谓毕竟乐

【为欲引发毕竟乐故，若未清淨修习正法，仅为命存以来引乐除苦而劬劳者，旁生亦有，故虽生善趣，等同旁生。】

那么我们现在修学佛法是为了干什么啊？要想得到快乐，可是这个快乐不究竟的。如果说我们想真正得到快乐的话应该什么？得到[毕竟乐]。这个毕竟的乐跟普通的乐不一样。眼前我们得到的乐的话，苦是跟着来，而且得到一点小乐，后面得到大苦。啊！我昨天回来的时候，这个路上看见好多大善知识，好多大善知识！什么东西啊？你们看得清楚看不清楚？高速公路上面一个大车，一车车载了这个东西。啊！我看了真是不禁流泪，不禁流泪啊！嗯，我以前，也只是说：[啊！这些堕落的，真可怜！]现在看见这种东西就策励自己：大善知识！我一看见我就策励我自己：[日常啊！你自己觉得是个修行人，你像吗？]啊！我真是背上面的汗直流。一路上回来的时候，再累、再累、再累回去的时候，磕头、拜佛、礼念还是要做，这些东西都要做。