【Mindfulness of Death】- By passing time in distractions such as sleep, lethargy, senseless talk, and eating and drinking

【Even if you try to engage in practices directed toward future lives, you will not be able to prevent the laziness of procrastination, thinking, “I will do it eventually.” 】

Now that I say, ok, I shall make effort to practice for my future lives. At the initial stage of practice, is practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. After a while, getting slower and slower, our pace gets slower and eventually back to the old self.

【By passing time in distractions such as sleep, lethargy, senseless talk, and eating and drinking, you will not attain proper achievement, which comes through great effort. 】

Till the time you gradually slow down, “distractions such as sleep, lethargy, senseless talk, and eating and drinking”. These are the things that wasted our life of leisure and opportunity, all wasted. At that time, you will have no means of great perseverance. Learning the Dharma requires great perseverance. This perseverance has a characteristic: It is not about doing everything diligently, but you have to strive very hard to engage in virtues. This is called perseverance. Now, if you put in much effort engaging in non-virtues, this is not perseverance! Thus, this perseverance comprises of two factors: First, you must be doing it diligently and the other is to practice in accordance with the teachings.

SOURCE 来源 :

37A 26’53” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P151 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P145

日常师父法语📡37A 26’53” 手抄稿第5册P151 LL2

念死无常 : 以睡眠昏沈杂言饮食等事，散耗时光

【设能缘虑后世而修，然不能遮后时渐修延缓懈怠，】

哦，说现在说，对啦，我努力提起来要修后世。刚开始地修、修，修修修修，慢慢、慢慢过了些时候，慢慢地又……脚步又放慢了，到最后啊又恢复老样子。

【遂以睡眠昏沈杂言饮食等事，散耗时日，故不能发广大精勤，如理修行。】

等到你慢慢地放缓了，唉呀，到那时“睡觉、昏沈、杂言、饮食等事”，就是这种东西把有暇的生命都浪费掉了，都浪费掉了。那时候没办法真正地发大精进。修学佛法需要大精进，这个精进有个特质：不是说你勤勤恳恳做事，就是说你非常努力在善法上面走，这个叫作精进。你现在非常努力做坏事情，这个不是精进哦！所以这个精进里面包含两个：一个你努力地去做，还有一个做的法是如法、如理修行。