【The Three Types of Persons 道次引导】to encounter such an encompassing teaching during the degenerate time - 2 末法中遇到圆满教法-2
【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- to encounter such an encompassing teaching during the degenerate time - 2
Even the teaching nowadays is fragmented, well! Yet we bounce around here and there [in cyclic existence] surprisingly we have encountered such an encompassing teaching. Please think about it: who had predicted that on this day we would be here studying this teaching together? How wonderful the good qualities of Buddha Dharma are. Upon having this thought, we should be pleased! When I have free time, I noticed that everyone is distressed; my feeling is truly, sigh! How wrong can this be. Usually when I am not occupied I would be happy. Why? It is for nothing but reflecting on the teaching! Ah, just thinking of it makes me very pleased! Often, for no reason just this thought makes me happy, even when affliction or distress arises, as soon as I think of the teaching and that makes me happy. Why? Because only by relying on the teaching can we remove our afflictions, why? Before one obtains this method, one can do nothing but miserably stare at the afflictions. Staring at the afflictions is not the critical part! When the affliction arises, one would strengthen it over and over which is followed by downfall to the hell realms. When yelled at by others, one takes it as uncalled for. One probably would think: this guy, why is he yelling at me? I need to get back at him! And then, what is the effect? After engaging in such negative karma, everyone would downfall together! Isn’t this very clear and explicit? Well! Come to think of it now, we take the yelling positively, now I can purify the debt that I owed him. When such affliction arises, by thinking of it this way one will become happy, too. Such happiness applies to pleasant situations, even during times of affliction one can still be happy, what more can you ask for?
In every given moment, if one can think of it this way, not only will the immediate afflictions be resolved, but also one’s conformity toward the teaching will increase and one will be concordant with this condition of learning the teaching. In the future, one would easily be reconnected with the teaching again! This is our best practice on the go!
SOURCE 来源 :
36B 08’46” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P123 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P140
日常师父法语📡36B 08’46” 手抄稿第5册P123 L7
道次引导 : 末法中遇到圆满教法-2
尽管这个时候教法支离破碎了，欸！我们却碰来碰去又碰到这个圆满的教法。大家想想看，谁知道我们今天会跑到聚集在这里来学这个东西啊？佛法就这么奥妙。想到这里要高兴啊！所以我平常没有什么事情，我看见大家苦苦恼恼，我真是觉得：唉！你们真是冤枉。我平常没什么事情就高兴。什么高兴哪？没有别的，就想这个嘛！啊，想到就欢喜得不得了！往往无缘无故地就想到就欢喜，乃至于它苦恼来的事情，苦恼来的事情我只要一想就欢喜。为什么？因为唯有这个方法才能够净除我们苦恼。你没有得到这个方法之前，苦恼硬是看着它苦恼。看着它苦恼还小事情耶！这苦恼来的时候，你还辗转地增长苦恼，跟着它下地狱。人家骂你一句，你觉得这无缘无故骂你，你怎么心里去想：这个家伙为什么骂我？我怎么样要弄他啊！然后呢，结果是什么？造了恶业大家一起下去呀！这不是很清楚、很明白吗？欸！现在我想起来，看见这东西好，以前我欠了他，现在我可以净化了。这苦恼来的时候啊，你一想到你也欢喜；这欢喜的时候固然欢喜，苦恼的时候也还有欢喜，你还有什么？
每一个时候你能够这样想的话，不但眼前解决了你的苦恼，而且增上了你跟法相顺、相应的这个缘，将来你就很容易又碰上了。这是我们随时随地的最佳修行啊！