【Mindfulness of Death】- Lifetime is always decreasing

I believe everyone will be able to experience this regardless of whether you are twenty, thirty or forty years old. Think back a year ago, ten years ago, it just seems like the present! From then and returning back to the present now, doesn’t it seem just like a moment ago? This life is just as quick as a moment. May I ask in these ten years, what have you done? If you continue this way, what else can you do? Yet, we can actually sit around and be nonchalant about it now! This is the time to cultivate. When asked to practice, you feel that you cannot do without this and that, you will say, hold on for a while, you feel lethargic because you haven’t had breakfast in the morning. After meals, laxity and distraction set in, you cannot concentrate and therefore, you can’t practice as well. When such a thing happens, this is due to not understanding the true essence of the Buddha’s teachings. Hence, this lifetime is always decreasing.

【for much of our life span seems to be finished already, and what remains cannot be extended even for a moment. Life diminishes day and night without a break. 】

By observing the current situation, much of our lifetime has already been consumed. The remaining lifetime, sorry, not much left either. It cannot be extended even for a moment. But it is diminishing every second without a break in the day and night.

SOURCE 来源 :

38B 20’29” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P197 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P150

日常师父法语📡38B 20’29” 手抄稿第5册P197 L7

念死无常 : 寿命一直在减短

我们想每一个人都可以体验得到，不管你今年二十几岁、三十几岁、四十几岁，你回想一年以前，回想十年以前，就像眼前哪！你从那个时候回过头来反看眼前，岂不是一刹那？这个生命就这么快一刹那，请问这个十年当中你做了什么？你现在如果还这样下去，你能做些什么？唉，我们现在居然啊，安然无事坐在这个地方！真正可修的时候做这个，然后叫你修的，你又觉得这个也少不了，那个也少不了，等一下今天早晨肚子也没吃饱，又觉得修行没气力；吃饱了昏昏欲睡，提不起劲来也没办法修行。这个对我们来说，还是我们没有如法地了解这个佛法的真相。所以这一点，说这个寿命一直在减短。

【此复现见多已先尽，所余寿量，虽刹那许亦无可添，然其损减，则遍昼夜无间有故。】

眼前一观察，我们这个寿，前面已经很多都已经尽了，余下来的，对不起，不多，你要想增加是一刹那都没办法。要增加它就是一刹那都没有办法，损减就一刹那都不停的，昼夜在那地方损失啊！