【Reflecting on your Future Life】- Inside the great hells

Inside the hell realm, it is divided into a few areas. The great hells of living beings are the hot hells.Then outside the hot hells, there are adjoining hells. Every hell is like a walled city, a square. Then outside of each wall, there are four adjoining hells. That is outside of every great hell, there are 16 [adjoining] hells. So it is layer by layer, and hard to imagine the immeasurable sufferings that one will have to bear, immeasurable sufferings! When you read through this there is something in there you need to pay attention to! No one wishes to go to hell. When one goes, it’s not as if he is really seeing it, seeing the suffering and then he goes there. He goes to find happiness. But because his bad karma enshrouds him, thus despite hoping to find happiness, he ends up finding misery. This concept, we need to first recognize it. After we recognize it, then when we learn later on, when we get to the principles of karma, this will become very clear for you.

Things we are busy for now are none other than what? He was looking for happiness. If you do not get a clear understanding now, you would do the wrong things, and create karma for hell. Then when you are about to enter hell, you will still feel that you are there to look for happiness. Yet, just one more step will take you to hell. And when that time comes, you are not allowed to back track. You can only move forward. This is something we should really understand.

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41A 27’58” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P16 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P163

日常师父法语📡41A 27’58”手抄稿第6册P16 LL3

三恶趣苦 : 大有情地狱的相状

那个地狱里边，分成功几个：所谓大有情地狱，就是热地狱；然后呢，这个热地狱外面，还有近边地狱。它每一个地狱像城一样的，四四方方，然后每一个外面都有四个近边地狱，就是每一个大地狱外面都有十六个地狱。这样一层一层的，受不晓得多少无量无边的苦，无量无边的苦！这个里边你们看的时候，注意一个事情哦！没有一个人想要到地狱去的，他去的时候，并不是明明看见了，说这个是苦而去，他要去的都是找快乐。但是因为他的恶业蒙蔽了，所以他要找快乐，结果得到的是苦。这个概念我们现在先有个认识，有了认识以后，然后等到我们下面学，学到这个业这个道理的时候，你就很清楚了。

眼前我们目前所忙的无非都是为了一样事情，干什么？找快乐。如果说你现在没有认识得清楚，你造错了，造了地狱业，将来你到地狱去了，你还是觉得要去找快乐，可是向前一步就是地狱。而且到那时候，不容许你后退的，你只有向前，这个事情才是我们真正应该了解的。