【Reflecting on your Future Life】- experiment on ants – Part II

When an ant is running around, “dong, dong ,dong”, there can be a few types of situations. One is that it is comfortably running around. Then when you put something in front of it, it will run to that thing. When the ant does run to the food, the ant will eat the food because that’s what the ant has been looking for. Thus the karma being manifested at that moment in the ant is looking for something to eat. When the ant sees it, the ant eats it. Another type of situation is if you tease the ant first. Once the ant is teased, eh, it will raise the two antennas and be ready to fight you. Then if you pushed it aside, it will run away in a hurry! At this time, what is manifesting in its mind? It is preparing to either escape or fight. Therefore, no matter how good the food is in front of the ant, as soon as it touches the food, the ant will immediately turn around and leave. Then when you try to block the ant [with the food], as soon as the ant sees the food, the ant will immediately turn around and leave. You can do this experiment yourself. There are always reasons for me to be telling you to do these experiments. Do learn well!

Then when you see ants [behave this way], you might in turn want to look at yourself.

SOURCE 来源 :

41B 19’31” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P28 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P172

日常师父法语📡41B 19’31”手抄稿第6册P28 LL6

三恶趣苦 : 蚂蚁试验II

这个蚂蚁嘟嘟嘟在那儿跑的时候，它有几种情况：有一种心安理得地跑，你在它的眼前放一下的话，它跑过去，那个时候它跑过去，一定会吃那个东西，因为它正在找那个吃的东西。所以那个时候它的现行的业—找吃的东西，看见了，吃。还有一种情况呢，你先逗它一下，它一逗，欸，它就拿着那两个角，就准备跟你斗了。然后呢你再拨它一下，它就“嘣嘣”，哇，拼命地跑！这个时候，它心里面的现行是什么？它要嘛准备逃，要嘛准备打架，所以你再好的东西摆在那里，一前面一碰到，它就马上转身就走；然后你再到前面一挡，它一碰见，马上转身就走。你们自己去做那个试验，我告诉你们试验都是有道理在的啊，要你们好好地学习呀！

然后你看见了蚂蚁，你不妨回过头来看看你自己。