【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】four errors that impede the practice 修行时的四个颠倒
【Mindfulness of Death】- four errors that impede the practice
Now let us take a look: if we do not cultivate Mindfulness of Death, not cultivating Mindfulness of death, what are the faults and shortcoming?
【As previously mentioned, there are four errors that impede your taking full advantage of your life: [Conceiving (1) the impure to be pure, (2) suffering to be happiness, (3) the impermanent to be permanent, and the selfless to have a self]. Initially, it is merely the conception of the impermanent to be permanent that is the avenue of much injury. This conception is twofold: coarse and subtle. Of these two, in the case of coarse impermanence, 】
Through the journey, we are very fortunate to encounter great virtuous teachers. After meeting the virtuous teachers, he understand that to actually practice, it requires external factors like relying on virtuous teachers and internal factors such as a life of leisure and opportunity. Now we have acquired a life of leisure and opportunity and we are about to practice. But when we are about to practice, there was an obstacle, there is an obstacle. What is that obstacle? These are the faults and errors. There are four of these errors. Among these four errors, what are the four? Conceiving the impermanent to be permanent, suffering to be happiness, selfless to have a self and the impure to be pure. At this point, he does not talk about the other three but touch first on permanence and impermanence. There is a reason behind. Everything has its sequence. The first is the most serious obstacle. After removing the first most serious obstacle, the rest will in turn be removed. It is as such.
SOURCE 来源 :
37A 14’45” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P145 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P145
日常师父法语📡37A 14’45” 手抄稿第5册P145 L7
念死无常 : 修行时的四个颠倒
现在我们看看：不修这个死，不修那个念死，有什么害处，有什么缺点呢？
【如是于其有暇身时，取心藏中有四颠倒，于诸无常执为常倒，即是第一损害之门。其中有二，谓粗及细，】
这么前面一路过来，我们有大幸而遇见大善知识，遇见大善知识以后呢，他了解了：哦，是的！真正修行，外面要靠善知识，里边还要得到暇满人身。现在我们得到了暇满人身了以后，正要修行，可是那个时候修行的时候啊，嘿，却有一个障碍在，却有一个障碍在。哪个障碍啊？就是错误的、颠倒的。这个颠倒有四个颠倒，这四个颠倒当中，哪四个？“常、乐、我、净”，他现在不说其他的三个，而先说这个常跟无常，有个原因的。它每一样东西有它的必然次第，这第一个最严重的障碍，那个第一个严重的障碍去除掉了，后面的障碍一一净除，就是这个样。