【Mindfulness of Death】- The coarse mindfulness of death

This error of conceiving impermanent as permanent is further divided into two – coarse and subtle. We are still not able to feel the subtle, so we shall not discuss about it. When we can feel the coarse error, then naturally, you will be able to go more in depth a step at a time.

【This conception is twofold: coarse and subtle. Of these two, in the case of coarse impermanence, which is your death, the avenue of injury is the very thought, “I will not die.”】

In the coarse [error], it is that you keep thinking you will not die. It is not we are thinking that we will not die. We always think: Ah, [we are] concerned with our thousand years and ten thousand years planning, this is our state of mind. Thus, we fail to think about death.

【Everyone has the idea that death will come later, at the end. However, with each passing day people think, “I will not die today; I will not die today,” clinging to this thought until the moment of death.】

Everyone is aware that at the end, towards the end, no one is an exception, everyone dies. Everyone would say that，

“Ah！we will just stretch out our legs (at death), isn’t it just like that!” We may be saying this, but do our actions resonate with it? Not at all. Among the things that we do every day, needless to talk about when we are feeling well, even upon death, we are still thinking, “I will not die today, I will not die tomorrow.” This is absolutely true!

SOURCE 来源 :

37A 16’55” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P146 L9
English Lamrim Vol 1 P145

日常师父法语📡37A 16’55” 手抄稿第5册P146 L9

念死无常 : 粗劣死无常

那么这个常颠倒分两个：一个粗、一个细，细的我们现在还感觉不到，还不谈；粗的你能够体会到了，自然而然能够一步步深入。

【于其粗劣死无常中，分别不死是损害门。】

那么粗的当中啊，就是你老想着不会死。我们不是想着不会死，我们老想着：唉呀！为千年、万年计，就这个状态，我们没有想到死这件事情。

【此复仅念今后边际，定当有死，虽皆共有，然日日中，乃至临终皆起是念，今日不死，今亦不死，其心终执不死方面。】

再说，尽管我们每一个人都晓得最后，跑到最后没有一个例外，大家死。大家会说的：“唉呀，到最后两脚一伸啊，还不是这样！”嘴巴上面尽管这么说，但是我们的行为呢，跟它相应不相应啊？不相应。我们每天所做的事情，不要说眼前好好的，乃至于临终的时候啊，自己还在想：唉呀，今天不会死，明天不会死。这是千真万确的！