【Mindfulness of Death】- you contemplate on the life of leisure and opportunity and then contemplate on mindfulness of death by going through back and forth.

【Those who are tortured by bad karma
Waste their wonderful leisure and opportunity, so hard to gain,
In order to acquire some trifling thing
Which is not so rare and which even animals may attain. 】

We spend our time busy doing these immediate mundane things, would you say that it has no benefit? There is but it has very little gain. But if you waste your life just to obtain a very small quantity of benefit, I am sorry to say that, you are no better than the animals! The animals can also do the same thing. Now that you have obtained a life of leisure and opportunity that is very difficult to obtain to begin with and yet you are busy with all these immaterial things, when you lose your human life of leisure and opportunity, you will never obtain it again. Ah ya! We have repeatedly said this previously. Therefore, over these two issues on death and life of leisure and opportunity, you must relate the two and contemplate on them constantly. At the same time, repeat the same thing when you are engaged in meditation. You contemplate on the life of leisure and opportunity and then contemplate on mindfulness of death by going through back and forth. When you have achieved some results, hold on to it, quickly meditate diligently and thoroughly. You will definitely be able to produce it. When this arises, the problems encountered in cultivation will naturally be resolved.

SOURCE 来源 :

40B 09’01” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P261 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P159

日常师父法语📡40B 09’01”手抄稿第5册P261 L6

念死无常 : 前后辗转地思维暇满与念死

【“畜亦不难办，为是小利故，业逼者坏此，难得妙暇满。”】

我们为了眼前世间这种事情，你说它没有利益吗？有的，有它一点小小的利益的；但是，假定你只忙这个小小的利益的话，对不起，你还不如畜生！因为这件事情，这个畜生也做得到的。你现在呢得到了这个难得的暇满的人身，就忙那些次要的、不相干的事情，一旦你这个暇满的人身失去了以后，你就再不可能得到。唉呀！这个前面我们一再说过了。所以现在这个死跟前面的暇满，一定要相关地摆在这里，经常去思惟。同时在我们正式修行的时候也是这样的，你思暇满，然后你念死，把它前后地、辗转地，这个不行那个，那个不行这个。然后你稍微有一点样子了，你赶快安住在这个上面，努力地深入地思惟，它一定会生得起来的。等到这个一旦生了起来的话，那你修行的问题，整个自然都解决。