【Reflecting on your Future Life】- As soon as you contemplate the great suffering ….

In the section on refuting misconception, there stated a principle. It said, don’t you wish to train in concentration? Yes. What are the obstacles to achieving concentration? Laxity and excitement, these are it. Excitement is thinking all sorts of thoughts and you can’t stop yourself from doing it. Now, if you think like this: after thinking of all sorts of things, after being busy for a long time, at the end you will have to endure such great suffering. As soon as you contemplate these sufferings, will you still be willing to get distracted with all sorts of thoughts? What sort of thoughts are in your mind, none other than what? Oh! You can’t let this go, can’t let that go. The result of being unable to let go will give you such great suffering. Then by that time, even if I were to give you what you want, you would refuse it. We now understand this principle now. Then, here it tells us how to cultivate. What’s the target measurement for this cultivation? That is, under any condition, as soon as you bring this thing up in your mind, this thought, your mind immediately concords with it. This is the time when you can go further [in the teachings]. Since you’ve attained mastery in this, thus when you begin to learn the training of concentration, [there is efficiency]. In practicing concentration, when your mind gets distracted and becomes preoccupied with all sorts of thoughts, you know, eh, here it goes with various thoughts, can’t seem to let this go, can’t let that go. [At this time], you’ll just need to spend a little effort to bring up the aspect of suffering. Since you’ve cultivated this previously, as soon as you bring it up, the mindset rises immediately. When this happens, will you still go on being distracted with various thoughts? Hey, you won’t be thinking them anymore.

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41B 28’49” & 42A 00’13” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P33 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P173

日常师父法语📡手抄稿第6册P33 LL6

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