【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】- completely do not recognize it (the “self”)

Generally whenever our thoughts arise, we are just going around within the perception of the “self.”  The perception of the self is the root of ignorance, all are based on this.  What is the “self?”  You can’t even see it. You completely do not recognize it. Needless to mention the finer aspects of it, you don’t even know the coarser aspects of it. Under such circumstances, eh! Speaking of it…therefore it is said that, “When you have forgotten the spirit of enlightenment and practice virtues, these are demon’s activities”.   What is the spirit of enlightenment?  It is enlightenment.  We don’t even need to speak of enlightening others. You at least have to enlighten yourself first before you can enlighten others. What should we be enlightened about?  To be enlightened on this.  At that time, I finally understood.  Ah!  That’s how it is. Therefore, I want to tell you this here that this is not the time to let us truly understand the correct subjective aspects yet.  That’s absolutely true.  Now I have only touched upon this one thing and pointed out the real subjective aspect of it for one purpose, which is what was said earlier.  If after hearing this, you can introspect, and see for yourself that, ah-ya, I am truly still going about outside the door, that’s the moment we’ve made great progress, and we would have a chance to improve, [in fact,] you are improving right now.  

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32B 05’24” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P278 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P127

日常师父法语📡32B 05’24” 手抄稿第4册P278 L1

暇满 : 完全不认识“我”

我们在平常起心动念当中，都在这个我相当中转，我相是无明的根本，都在这上面。我是什么？你根本见不到，完全不认识它，不要说细相，那粗相都不知道。在这种情况之下，唉！说起来……所以叫[忘失菩提心，修诸善法，是名魔业]，菩提心是什么？觉，不要说觉他，你至少自己自觉了你才能觉他，要觉的是什么啊？就是觉的这个东西，那时候我才懂得，啊！原来这样的。 所以我在这个地方告诉你们，真正让我们了解正确的行相，现在还不是时候，千真万确的。现在我才所以碰到一个地方，把这个真正的行相指出来，只有一个目的，刚才说过了，假定听见了以后你们能反省，发现自己，哎呀，的确还在门外转，那时候我们就大进步了，就还有机会进步，现在就是个进步。