【 Reflecting on your Future Life 三恶趣苦】when unable to bring up the desire to practice, what can we do? 修行提不起来怎么办？
【Reflecting on your Future Life】- when unable to bring up the desire to practice, what can we do?
Therefore, let me tell you a story of mine. As I am a very foolish and inferior person, though I wanted to practice when I heard the principles then, yet it truly wasn’t so easy to engage in practice; I failed to bring up the desire. Well then what to do then? I used this method. It was in the winter and I was in New York at the time. Oh, winter time in New York is really cold! The temperature is around 5 to 6 degrees in Fahrenheit, and that would be about minus 10 degrees or more in Celsius. No need to mention minus 10 degrees, it’s already unbearable at 0 degree. It is extremely cold. So what did I do then? I took a cold water shower, took a cold water shower. I took off my clothes. Since there was heater inside the house, I kept the heater on for the ground floor, but switched the heater off for the upper floor. Therefore, the upper floor was very cold. Ah, by the time I got upstairs, my face had already turned pale. Then, when I went to the bathroom, took off my clothes and splashed water on myself, “Ah! Ah!” When I came out of the bathroom, I was shivering and jumping! No, no, no, don’t want to do this anymore! Don’t want to do it anymore! Then I thought about it, “No! No! This is not enough suffering. I need to go in again!” Just like this! After splashing with cold water, the body felt frozen. Then I thought I need to practice, and so when I sat down in meditation again, I didn’t doze off or get distracted. You might want to try this for yourself. This is absolutely the truth. Don’t feel aggrieved when you have to take a little suffering! You have to begin like this. However, here he tells us that we don’t need to go through these sufferings, but instead what should we do? You should just thoroughly contemplate on this.
SOURCE 来源 :
41B 24’18” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P31 L2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P173
日常师父法语📡41B 24’18” 手抄稿第6册P31 L2
三恶趣苦 : 修行提不起来怎么办？
所以我自己告诉你们一个故事。因为我自己是一个很愚痴、很差的人，所以当年听见了这个道理，要修行啊，的的确确，啊，这个修行不是很简单的事情，提不起来。那怎么办？就用这个办法。冬天，那个时候在纽约，哦，这个纽约到了冬天气温很冷的喔！都是依华氏来说的话，大概是五、六度，摄氏来说的话是零下，零下，大概零下十几度。不要说零下十几度，零度，零度都受不了，那冷得不得了，怎么办？洗冷水澡，洗一个冷水澡。把衣服脱掉了以后，然后呢它房子里都有这个暖气的，我下面那个暖气还保留，上面这个暖气不放。上面已经很冷，唉呀，跑到那地方脸已经发白，然后跑到洗手间里边，然后呢脱掉了衣服，拿那个水冲，“啊虎！啊！”然后跑出来，那时候抖啊、跳啊！不不不，不要来了！不要来了！然后想想看：不行！不行！这个还不够苦，再进去！这样。那真是冲了两下以后，那身上冻得啊……然后说修行啊，这时候再坐下去的话，也不打瞌睡，也不打妄想了。你们不妨试试看，这是千真万确的事实。不要说现在受了一点点小小的苦就委屈啊！你们要从这地方。所以他现在叫我们也不必受那个苦，怎么办呢？你好好地思惟一下。