【 Reflecting on your Future Life 三恶趣苦】earth is like heaven when you compare it to hell 人间比起地狱是天堂

【Reflecting on your Future Life】- earth is like heaven when you compare it to hell

Many of us always think: Ah! this is not okay and that is not okay either! Ah, later you would say you are hungry, and it’s not okay when you are hungry. Then when you are full, it’s not okay when you are full either. Then if you become a little sick, that’s not ok either. Actually, for all the things we experience in the world, if you compare them to what you would have to experience in hell, no matter how great the suffering is in this world, ah, it is like being in heaven when you compare it to hell! Therefore, before we understand, it is truly very difficult to bring up the urge to practice. But once you truly understand it, even if you are experiencing so much pain now that it forces you to crawl on the ground, you will still desperately strive to practice. This is absolutely the truth. Therefore, this point is something we must know, must know!

I have seen too many practitioners of the past and modern times. All the real practitioners have set this example for us. If you ask him not to practice, he can’t do it. No matter how difficult and tough things are, he is able to exhort himself. Well then why is it that we can’t do that? I need to bring something up here. What is the reason? That is because normally our karmic obscurations are too weighty.

SOURCE 来源 :

41A 11’27” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P9 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P161

日常师父法语📡41A 11’27” 手抄稿第6册P9 L1

三恶趣苦 : 人间比起地狱是天堂

我们现在太多人哪，总觉得：哎呀，这个也不行啊，那个也不行啊！唉，等一下说这个饿了嘛，饿了也不行；饱了嘛，饱了也不行；然后呢生一点小病也不行。实际上，所有人世间这种东西啊，比之于地狱来的话，你世间再苦，啊，那比之地狱是天堂啊！所以我们不了解之前哪，的的确确是很难提得起劲来修行。一旦你真的了解了以后，就算你现在痛得地上爬，你还是会拼命努力地修行，这是千真万确的事实。所以这一点是我们务必要知道，务必要知道！

我看见太多这种古代的、近代的这种真正的修行人哪，真正的修行人都是这个榜样—你叫他不修啊，他就是办不到，他再艰苦的状态当中，他就会能策励。那么为什么我们做不到呢？这个地方要提一下。原因是什么？就是因为我们平常业障太重。