【Reflecting on your Future Life】- One is greedy for one bite of food now, yet one enters the hells in the future

【in the Friendly Letter:
Even though you experience
Such horrible sufferings for a billion years,
You do not die
Until the non-virtue is spent. 】

Let’s read the following explanations.

【Thus, you must experience these sufferings until the force of your karma is exhausted.】

The suffering in this place, it is extreme and long in duration, ah, terribly long! How long is it? It depends on your karma. For your karma, until your non-virtuous karma is exhausted, sorry! One would have to stay in this place until then. Therefore, one would have to stay for a length of time as dictated by the karma. With however much karma you’ve created, you would have to endure as much suffering. Though going there completely depends on the karma that an individual creates, the duration of stay also depends on the karma. Thus, we are greedy for a little suffering now, and later, we will have to endure long eons of non-virtuous effects. That is so not worthwhile. People are just so foolish, people are just so ignorant! Ah! One is greedy for one bite of food now, yet when one enters the hells in the future and be filled with liquid copper and hot iron, one will have no idea how long of a period that would be.

SOURCE 来源

41B 01’37” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P20 L2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P164

日常师父法语📡41B 01”37” 手抄稿第6册P20 L2

三恶趣苦 : 眼前贪一口之食，将来跑到地狱里

【如《亲友书》云：“如是诸苦极粗暴，虽受经百俱胝年，乃至不善未尽出，尔时与命终不离。”】

下面这个解释看一下。

【谓其乃至能受业力未尽以来，尔时定须受彼诸苦。】

说这个地方的苦啊，不得了地苦，它的年代之长，唉呀，不得了地长！长到什么程度啊？你的业，不善的业没有尽之前哪，对不起！他一直在这个地方。所以说一直要到跟你的业相应的时间完了，你造多少业，就得遭受多少苦。去，固然完全是看个人造的业，而停留在那边的时间，也是看你的业。所以我们眼前哪为了贪一点点小苦，然后呢，受长劫的这个恶报啊，真划不来，人就是这么愚痴，人们就是这么愚痴！唉！眼前贪一口之食，将来跑到地狱里面哪，烊铜热铁灌口啊，受不晓得多长的时间。