【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】- Counter the mentality of laziness

If we go one step further, if we observe our minds, we would also know that with the mentality of laziness, without upholding ethical discipline, you cannot change. Upholding ethical discipline may mean two things, one is the person or things of the external environment, and the other is internal. For example, if you do not want to do this thing, but the external environment forces you to do it, then there is a force there. The second one is that you know yourself that, ah, I can’t do this! To initiate, still needs this force. So without this force to change, its current condition cannot change. This is very plain and clear. Therefore it is truly a remedy for laziness. Since now we understand this, in the future you would still have to apply the remedy, then why bother waiting until later? The more you wait, the more you cannot change! What’s the reason for this? What’s the reason for this?

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32A 11’41” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P263 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P127

日常师父法语📡32A 11’41”手抄稿第4册P263 LL3

暇满 : 对治懈怠心理

更进一步，我们现在观察一下我们自己的内心也晓得，这个懈怠的心理，没有一个特别的刺激，你就是改不过来。这种刺激可能有两个，一个外面的人，一件事情，另一个里面的。譬如说，你不想做这一件事情，但是外面逼着你去做了，那个时候有一种力量；第二呢，你自己晓得说，啊，不行啊！启发，还是这个力量。所以不经过这个力量修改的话，它这个现在的状态不能改变，很清楚、很明白。所以它真正对治就是懈怠，我们既然了解了，将来你还是要对治，那你为什么要等到后面？越等，它这个越不能改！