【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity 暇满】Just to obtain this human form requires one thing, ethical discipline 得到人身需要一个—戒

【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】- Just to obtain this human form requires one thing, ethical discipline

Just to obtain this human form requires one thing, ethical discipline. Ethical discipline, which is normally our five precepts. The five precepts equate to being a good person of the mundane world; you have to do this. But if we were to take a look at what’s going on presently, truthfully speaking, it’s pretty difficult to do this, pretty difficult to do this! Not to mention for us who are ordained, if you think through this thoroughly. It’s even more difficult for lay practitioners. For the lay practitioners of the mundane world, the discipline of no lying is so difficult. Ha! It is extremely difficult. We don’t want to say that the other [disciplines] seem easy either. If you carefully analyze and observe, it is truly not that easy! We say that we don’t commit stealing. We do not engage in serious crime of stealing, that is absolutely true. But if you read the “Brief Explanation of the Five-Ethical Discipline Sutra”, you will see that we constantly violate the discipline of no stealing in subtle ways. And then with no lying, no stealing, and no sexual misconduct, these are not that easy, not that easy [to uphold]. We say well then we don’t drink alcohol ? Yes, that’s right, you don’t drink alcohol. However, the abstainment from drinking alcohol has a particular meaning. Sorry! There is still a loophole [in our practice] with respect to this area.

SOURCE 来源 :

32A 25’09” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P271 LL5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P127

日常师父法语📡32A 25’09” 手抄稿第4册P271 LL5

暇满 : 得到人身需要一个—戒

单单得到人身需要一个—戒。所谓戒，平常我们五戒，这个五戒就是作世间的一个好人，你要做到。要我们现在看看的话，说实在的很难做到耶，很难做到耶！不要说我们出了家了，仔细想想看。在家人更难做到，现在的世间的在家人妄语之难，哈！真是难极了。我们不要说其他的好像容易哦，你仔细去分析观察的话，我们实在不容易哦！盗说我们不犯，粗的盗相是我们不会犯，千真万确的，可是如果你把《五戒相经笺要》看一看的话，细的盗戒，我们还是一直在犯。然后到妄、盗、淫，这个不大容易，不大容易。我们说酒总不喝了吧？对，没错，酒是不会喝的，但是酒的遮的，止的意义有一个特别的意义，对不起！我们这个地方漏洞还是有。