【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】This life is constantly lost and there is nothing which can extend it. 此寿恒损减，亦无余可添
【Mindfulness of Death】- This life is constantly lost and there is nothing which can extend it.
【Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds:
This life is constantly lost
Day and night without a pause,
And there is nothing which can extend it.
Why should death not come to someone like me? 】
How can I not die? The above simply tells us, this is what we should truly contemplate upon.
【Contemplate this with many examples.】
Contemplate this with many examples. If you can reflect from different perspectives, this metaphor means using these immediate examples to concordantly contemplate. The following tells us,
【When weaving cloth, weavers use no more than one piece of thread on each pass, yet they quickly finish weaving the cloth.】
Just like weaving cloth, it seems like weavers use no more than one piece of thread on each pass, yet they quickly finish weaving the cloth. Or,
【When animals such as sheep are led to slaughter, they move closer to death with every step they take.】
When sheep are led to the slaughter house, we are similar to them. With every step we take, we are moving closer to death.
【The water carried by the current of a strong river or the water in a waterfall on a steep mountain quickly disappears. Just as in these examples, your life quickly spent and gone. Just as when herdsmen pick up their sticks, their livestock helplessly follow them home, so sickness and aging lead you helplessly into the presence of the Lord of Death.】
It is the same, we are also like that. We have no control over aging and sickness which will bring us to the presence of the Lord of Death. With regard to what was said earlier,
【In this way, meditate on the certainty of death from many perspectives.】
Meditate diligently. This is what we truly should be working hard on.
SOURCE 来源 :
38B 22’06” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P198 L5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P150
日常师父法语📡38B 22’06”手抄稿第5册P198 L5
念死无常 : 此寿恒损减，亦无余可添
【《入行论》云：“昼夜无暂停，此寿恒损减，亦无余可添，我何能不死。”】
我怎么能不死？上面这是简单告诉我一下，我们真正应该想的。
【此复应从众多喻门，而正思惟。】
不管在各方面，只要你能够体会得到的各方面，这个比喻就是说眼前这些样子来体会，而如理地去思惟。下面就告诉我们，
【谓如织布，虽织一次仅去一缕，然能速疾完毕所织。】
像织布一样，你看起来好像只有一根线，欸，很快地就织完了！或者
【为宰杀故，如牵所杀羊等步步移时，渐近于死。】
牵了这个羊跑到那个死场，我们现在也是如此。我们每向前跨一步─不跨，你那个心就是步步走到死那地方去啊！
【又如江河猛急奔流，或如险岩垂注瀑布，如是寿量，亦当速尽。又如牧童持杖驱逐，令诸畜类，无自主力而赴其所，其老病等，亦令无自在引至死前。此诸道理，】
也是一样，我们就是这样，我们这个老跟病，你自己一点都没有办法自在，它把我们带到死前面去。关于上面所说的这个道理啊，
【应由多门而勤修习，】
好好地努力，这才是我们真正要努力的地方。