【Reflecting on your Future Life】- Lifespan in the Reviving Hell

Well then within the hells, in the best hell (meaning the hell of the least harm), you can calculate it. I had calculated this number before. There are a total of eight great hells and the last one is the Unrelenting Hell. Ah! We won’t talk about that. Then, to go up the levels from the last Unrelenting Hell, one by one, until the first one, it would be the Reviving Hell. How long is the lifespan in the Reviving Hell? I am going to read the number to you and you think about it! One six two zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero
(1,620,000,000,000) human years. Then, let me count it, thousand, million, a hundred million, and then hundred billion, so it’s one hundred six two billion. One hundred? Am I right? Thousand, million, billion, no! It’s one trillion. One trillion six hundred twenty billion years! The Reviving Hell, as soon as you fall into it, it takes so
long, so long! However, after we become ordained, there are many times that we commit sins without realizing it.

May I ask, no matter how great your happiness is now, is it worth it? For the pursuit of happiness and evasion of suffering, ah! So when I think about it, it’s really not worthwhile! It’s really not worthwhile!

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41B 04’08” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P21 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P164

日常师父法语📡41B 04’08” 手抄稿第6册P21 L7

三恶趣苦 : 等活地狱的寿命

那么在地狱当中啊，最好的地狱，算一下，我曾经算了一个数字。这个大地狱一共有八个大地狱，那个最后那个地狱是无间地狱，啊！那个不谈。然后呢，从无间地狱一个一个上来、上来、上来，上来第一个叫等活地狱。等活地狱这个寿命等于多少？我现在念一下给你们听，你们想一想哦！一六二零、零零零、零零零、零零零，是我们人间的寿命。那我现在算算看，千、百万、亿，然后呢千亿，壹仟陆佰贰拾亿年。壹仟，是不是啊？千、百万、十亿、不是！万亿。壹万亿陆仟贰佰亿年呀！等活地狱，一旦进去了，这么长，这么长！但是我们出了家以后啊，很多时候不知不觉就造了这个罪。

请问：你眼前再大的快乐，值得吗？我们为了求快乐，为了避免痛苦，唉！所以我想想，真不值得啊！真不值得啊！