【 Reflecting on your Future Life 三恶趣苦】The reason why we can’t bring up the urge to cultivate 提不起修行的原因

【Reflecting on your Future Life】- The reason why we can’t bring up the urge to cultivate

What do we do now? Eh, we speak of cultivation. Ah, truly cannot bring up the urge! Ah, when we ask you to practice, you really can’t bring up the urge! Why is it that you can’t bring it up? You are greedy for a little happiness. This greediness (or attachment) to happiness, to want happiness is absolutely something that everyone wants.In fact, I’m more afraid that you aren’t greedy for happiness,if you aren’t attached to happiness, I can’t do a thing about you. If you are after happiness, then you need to go a step further to ask, where does happiness come from? Eh,happiness comes from cultivation! Since it comes from cultivation, you will then be willing to practice. Therefore,the reason we cannot truly practice is not because we are greedy for happiness, but that we don’t know this principle. Thus if we truly wish to cultivate, we must cultivate according to the teachings, truly understand and say, “Oh, this happiness comes from cultivation. Sufferings are avoided through cultivation!” At that time, you will certainly strive to practice. This is spoken with respect to the self.

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41A 18’50” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P12 L5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P161

日常师父法语📡41A 18’50”手抄稿第6册P12 L5

三恶趣苦 : 提不起修行的原因

我们眼前是什么？欸，讲修行，啊，真提不起来！哎呀，叫你去做啊，真提不起来！为什么提不起来？贪一点快乐。这个贪快乐、要快乐，千真万确人人都要。说实在的，就怕你不贪快乐，不贪快乐，拿你一点办法都没有。你要贪快乐了，那么你进一步问：这快乐哪来的？欸，快乐是修行来的！既然修行来的，你就肯修行了。所以我们现在真正地不能修行，不是贪快乐，而是不知道这个道理。所以我们真正要修行，一定要如法地去修行，真正地了解了，说：哦，这个快乐是要修行得来的，痛苦要修行避免的！那个时候啊，的的确确你就会努力去修行了。这是对自己来说。