【Reflecting on your Future Life】- Confused by the fruition of terrible karma

【When they go to a seashore covered
With clear, glittering foam from crashing waves,
It becomes for them a wasteland
Blasted by hot sand, dark mist, and a searing wind.
Dwelling in that place, they long for rain clouds to appear,
Whereupon there issues from the clouds a rain of iron arrows,
Smoking cinders, and sparkling, diamond-hard boulders,
And, one after the other, gold and orange lightning bolts fall on their bodies like rain. For those afflicted by heat even a snowstorm is hot; [128] For those tormented by wind even fire is cold.
This entire universe appears upside down to these hungry ghosts Confused by the fruition of terrible karma.】

These 4 sets of verses, each has 4 phrases. We first see the actual conditions. He said that in hell there are two kinds, or we don’t necessarily have to talk about hell, anyway, all of these things are the effects of karma. One has to endure all sorts of sufferings. There is one kind of suffering which makes you extremely hot. When you are extremely hot, eh, here is an interesting effect! When the snow floats down and touches the body, if this happened to us when we are really hot, we would feel the coolness and iciness. But what does he feel? Hey, when he touches snow, he is still (feeling) unbearably hot. On the contrary, when it’s really cold, such as when we feel really cold, we would make a fire and obtain warmth. But when he is cold, even if he uses the fire, he is still unbearably cold! Why is that? It is “the fruition of terrible karma.”

SOURCE 来源 :

41B 16’42” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P27 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P172

日常师父法语📡41B 16’42”手抄稿第6册P27 L8

三恶趣苦 : 猛业成熟所愚蒙

【若奔畏浪高翻滚，泡沬充溢大水藏，彼于此见热沙雾，红风猛乱大旷野。此住其中望云雨，云降铁箭具炭烟，流飞炽炎金刚石，金色电闪降于身。热逼雪纷亦炎热，寒迫虽火亦令寒，猛业成熟所愚蒙，于此种种皆颠倒。】

四个四句话。先看一个实际的情况。他说在地狱里边有两种，或者是—我们不一定说地狱了，反正是这个都是，一切都是啊业力所感得的。他受种种的苦，有一种苦呢热得不得了。这个热得不得了的时候，欸，妙了！这个身上飘，碰到雪……要我们的话，说热得不得了的话，碰到雪的话觉得有冰凉之感。他怎样啊？嘿，碰到雪，他也热得受不了。反过来呢，寒冷的时候，我们寒冷的时候，弄点火烤烤就暖和了。他寒冷的时候，你火烤，烤到火啊，他也寒得受不了！为什么这样啊？是“猛业成熟”。