【Reflecting on your Future Life】- Strive to practice even more if karmic obscuration is weighty

Thus after you understand that your karmic obscuration is weighty, you will strive even more, and work even harder. This is absolutely the truth! This then is really having reached a correct understanding. After understanding it correctly, this is the inevitable result! Once you understand this point, you will then try even harder to find methods to resolve this problem and exhort yourself to practice. Therefore, after all that is said, the most important concept overall is that our view is skewed, we have not obtained the correct view. This is the foremost important issue in cultivation.

Therefore earlier we talked about hell, next would be hungry ghosts, then animals. This is what we should strive to observe. When we see the sufferings of the miserable realms, what should we do now? “Eliminate the causes of these,” we should eliminate the non-virtuous causes, purify our obscurations and then work hard at accumulating the collections of merits, to engage in all kinds of virtues. If you wish to purify obscurations and practice to accumulate all kinds of virtuous karma, you will have to rely on a human life of leisure and opportunity. Yet today, you have obtained it. Therefore, this is the time when you need to quickly strive, “diligently stop the causes of miserable rebirths!” When you stop the causes of miserable rebirths, it is the time that you are creating virtuous karma. This is what Nagarjuna Bodhisattva, what Nagarjuna Bodhisattva tells us.

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41A 14’06” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P10 L3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P161

日常师父法语📡41A 14’06” 手抄稿第6册P10 L3

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