【Mindfulness of Death】- The biggest obstacle obstructing our practice

【Until this arises in your mind, the paths of all the teachings remain blocked. 】

For the genuine practitioners, what should they do? The first thing is to meditate this. When the force to contemplate on death arises, it will naturally come to you that, all those immediate things, ah ya, this cannot be it, that cannot be given up, this is also embarrassing and that also can’t be let go, all be discarded, totally discarded! What is next after you have discarded them? Focus on cultivating the Dharma! This is the key to formal cultivation of the Dharma. If you can’t break through this or the mind can’t produce mindfulness of death, the obstacle is still residing there. Consequently, deeper learning of the teachings will be just mere words! Therefore, this biggest obstacle obstructing your practice must be removed.

SOURCE 来源 :

40B 16’11” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P264 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P159

日常师父法语📡40B 16’11” 手抄稿第5册P264 Ll2

念死无常 : 修行第一大障碍

【乃至心中未能生此，是乃遮阻一切法道。”】

真正修行的人，应该怎么办呢？就是第一件事情—修这个。等到你修这一个念死这个量生起来了，自然而然哪，你把眼前所有的讲这些，唉呀，这个也说不过去，那个也放不掉，这个也不好意思，这个也不能罢休，统统放掉了，统统放掉了！放掉了以后怎么办呢？一心修学佛法！所以正式修学佛法的第一个关键，就在这里。如果说，这一关没有突破，或者念死这个心理没有生起，这个障碍摆在这地方，下面深入地修法，都是空话！所以，成为修行第一大障碍的这个难关一定要破除，就是这个。