【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】Be slow and steady in your practice, you will achieve more at a faster pace 慢慢修时快快到
【Mindfulness of Death】- Be slow and steady in your practice, you will achieve more at a faster pace
【Consequently, you will not fear death out of the distress of leaving. 】
As you have abandoned the craving for the immediate things, what is there to be fearful of death? Of course, there is nothing to be fearful of. Now we want to cultivate the Dharma, we should cultivate this. As for this actual mindfulness of death, what is the true content to cultivate? It is this. This is what we should understand. After understanding the principle, the following tells us how to be mindful of death. When you follow the sequence, you will very naturally, base on the principle explained above, be able to develop its quality accordingly. It becomes a strong driving force for you to move up step by step. Therefore, the Tibetan Elders have a phrase “Be slow and steady in your practice, you will achieve more at a faster pace. When you base your practice on a firm foundation, you will reach the peak”. Do not be impatient, practice slowly then you will achieve your goal more quickly. Our current state is that we wish to make haste but are unable to do so in the end. Furthermore, practicing from the foundation will naturally lead you to the peak. If the foundation is done properly, you will naturally progress. But for us now, we do not want to cultivate from the foundation but impatiently seek to practice at a higher level. Oh, I am now meditating on something and when in that state, I do something. There is no foundation. Thus, after spending much time on it, there is no result.
SOURCE 来源 :
38B 05’55’’ Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P189 LL1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P148
日常师父法语📡38B 05’55’’ 手抄稿第5册P189 LL1
念死无常 : 慢慢修时快快到
【由离此等所引忧恼增上力故，怖畏死没皆不得生。】
因为你对眼前这种爱着难舍的东西都舍掉了，那死有什么好怕？那自然不怕！我们现在想修行、修行，就应该修这个，这个才是我们要修的。所以这个真正的念死，修学的内容是什么？是这个。这个我们要了解的，了解了这个道理以后，下面真正告诉我们怎么念死。等到你照着下面这个次第一念的时候，你自然而然，上面说的这个道理，都一一如量地生起，然后变成功强有力的推动你的力量，你就步步上升，步步上升。所以那个密祖有一句话：“慢慢修时快快到，低处修时高处到。”你不要急，你慢一点修，欸！结果就到得个快；我们现在是欲速不达，唉！你急求快呀，结果快不起来。还有呢，低处修时高处到，你下面的基础做得好的话，你自然做得上去。我们现在下面的不要的，赶快做上面的，就这样。喔唷！我在那儿是观一个什么，然后我在那儿的话做些什么。基础─基础没有！所以弄了个半天哪，没有效果。