【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】- To feel the subjective aspect of “self” is not easy

A fellow Dharma brother, he told me one day, “ah-ya! To speak of the principle it is so easy, but to practice it and have a feel for it, it is truly not so easy!” So then we casually started talking about the correct view, and began to talk about the subjective aspect of the “self”. He said to truly feel the subjective aspect of the “self” is not easy! Needless to mention the finer details of it, even for the coarser aspects, it’s hard for us to resonate. If we wish to see and feel the finer details, it is impossible. I had always respected that particular Dharma brother. Even though he is not as expressive and articulate as me, but he is someone who either doesn’t speak, but when he does, his words are weighty. I have benefited much from his reminders. I took that sentence and put it in my mind, and tried to figure it out left and right, tried to figure it out left and right. Ai, I finally figured something out. I took a look! It’s absolutely right. I then happily went to look for him and said, “I now finally understood your sentence.” What phenomenon did I understand? I discovered a fact that I was an amateur to Buddhism. Eh, when he heard that he was pretty pleased. So he asked me, can you elaborate on that? I spoke for a while and could not quite explain it. But at that time I realized that I wasn’t making a mistake, I had a little improvement. But it was just a little. There was a little improvement. What did I discover? I realized that I did not know anything. This is my personal experience.

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32B 04’06” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P277 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P127

日常师父法语📡32B 04’06” 手抄稿第4册P277 L6

暇满 : 体会‘我’这行相不容易

有一位师兄，他就有一天告诉我，哎呀！说这个讲道理真容易，做起来体会到是不容易啊！那么又随便谈起那个正知见，谈到这个[我]的行相，他说真正要体会到我这行相不容易！不要说我们细的，粗的都感觉不到，如果要细的，我们根本没有可能。那位师兄是我一向非常佩服的，尽管他不像我那样能说善道，可是他平常要嘛不开口，开起口来都是非常有份量的，我真正的很多好处，都是因为他的提示。我就把那句话记在心里面东摸西摸、东摸西摸，哎，居然被我摸出一个名堂来，一看！一点都没有错，下次好高兴跑得去，欢喜他，我说我现在才真懂了你这一句话。那懂了什么现象？发现一个道理，我以前根本对佛法是外行。欸，他听了满欢喜的，他说你倒进一步说说看，我说了半天还是说大不出来，但是那时候我发现自己没错，稍稍有一点进步，也只是稍稍。稍稍有一点进步，发现什么？自己原来一无所知，这是我亲身的体验。