【 Reflecting on your Future Life 三恶趣苦】Displaying foolish demeanour due to the fruition of terrible karma 猛业成熟所愚蒙的行相

【Reflecting on your Future Life】- Displaying foolish demeanour due to the fruition of terrible karma

Usually with your favourite food if at the moment of eating, I scold you and say, “You act just like an animal. Your cultivation is poor! You just like to eat and are lazy!” At the time, perhaps at the beginning of the scolding, you may think that, ah, some scolding is fine. But in the end, when you’ve scolded enough and have developed anger, if you are being offered food at this point, you will pick it up and toss it down! Do you believe that? It’s true right? I think every one of us knows this. No matter what you wished to eat before, you will throw it down at this point. In particular, if it’s something that I’m giving you at this point, you will absolutely refuse to eat it! Why? That is the time the karma has matured. This is absolutely a truth that’s in plain sight. Then when you are in the midst of your anger, even when the nicest person comes to try to talk to you, the only response you have is, “Go, go, go, go, go away! Don’t bother being long winded here!” Isn’t it like this? Why does this happen? The fruition of terrible karma! Yet this karma is not quite like the karma of hell. When you compare the sufferings of hell to what we experience now, we don’t know how many thousands of times greater [are the sufferings of hell]. Therefore, this karma is stronger by so many folds! Our karma now is so little [in comparison], and we are already feeling like this! Now do you believe me?

Therefore, what is written in the sutras, absolutely do not deceive us. We are foolish now, that’s why we would use our own way of thinking, and always feel, “Ah, what’s written in the sutras is to scare you [in order] to exhort you!” There is no such thing! If it is used to scare you and then exhort you, then Buddha is not the one who speaks the truth. Yet, Buddha has clearly told us these things in many places. This is something we absolutely need to understand. Thus, these are the areas where we should really pay attention to.

SOURCE 来源 :

41B 20’28” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P29 L3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P172

日常师父法语📡41B 20’28” 手抄稿第6册P29 L3

三恶趣苦 : 猛业成熟所愚蒙的行相

平常你最欢喜吃的东西，就是你要吃的，如果说那个时候我就骂了你一下说：“你这个家伙，就像畜生一样，修行不行！贪吃懒做！”到那时候啊，刚开始的时候，你骂，啊，骂骂算了。到后来，骂得你发了脾气了，到那时候交给你吃的话，你拿起来甩掉！你相信不相信？对不对？我想我们人人有这个，你再要吃的东西，你就是甩掉。尤其是我给你的，你绝对不吃！为什么？就是这个业成熟的时候，千真万确的事实摆在这里。然后你今天脾气非常盛的时候，再好的人跑得来劝你的话，你一定回答他：“去去去去去！你在这儿啰嗦什么东西！”对不对？为什么？猛业成熟啊！这个业还不是地狱业，地狱的苦比起我们现在，不晓得大上百千万倍，所以这个业力是不晓得厉害多少倍啊！我们现在这种业，这么小，尚且是如此啊！现在信得过吗？

所以这个经上的话，绝对不会骗我们。我们现在愚痴，所以拿我们自己的想法，总觉得：哎呀，这个经上讲的话呀，吓吓你啊，那策励你啊！没有这样的事情！如果是吓吓你、策励你的话，佛就不是如语者，不是实语者；佛太多的地方说得清清楚楚。这个是我们千真万确要了解的，所以这种地方是我们真正着眼的地方。