【Mindfulness of Death】- There will never be a time when your life span does not diminish

【At the end of this life, the Lord of Death will destroy you and you will pass into the next world. Until then, there will never be a time when your life span does not diminish, whether you are going somewhere, walking around, or lying down.】

Look,not only at the end of our lifetime we die, even during the intervening life, regardless in any state, this lifetime continues to diminish and diminish. When did it start to diminish? It starts from the moment you enter the womb.

【Thus, starting from the moment that you enter the womb, you do not remain for even an instant, but go head long toward the next lifetime.】

Thus, starting from the moment you enter the womb, that is to say, from the moment when your projecting karma is determined, both your projecting karma and completing karma are determined. From that very moment, your lifetime keeps diminishing.........till the day you die.

【Therefore, even your intervening life is exclusively consumed in a procession toward death led by the messengers, sickness and aging.】

This is what we must understand correctly: your intervening life is exclusively consumed by aging or sickness, which are all sufferings and preparation of death.

SOURCE 来源 :

39A 02’40” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P206 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P

日常师父法语📡39A 02’40” 手抄稿第5册P206 L8

念死无常 : 随作何事，全无不减寿量之时

【非但寿边为死所坏，而趣他世，即于中间行住卧三，随作何事，全无不减寿量之时。】

看，不但我们的寿命最后死，就算是在没有死的中间，不管在任何状态当中，它这个寿命一直在减、一直在减，这个减的时候从哪里开始？从入胎的时候开始。

【首从入胎，即无刹那而能安住，唯是趣向他世而行，】

从一开始投胎那一刹那开始，就是说你的引业决定的时候，你的引、满二业，就决定了。从这个时候开始，你一直向后，这个在减、在减、在减……到你死了为止。

【故于中间生存之际，悉被老病使者所牵，唯为死故导令前行。】

这个是我们要正确了解的，在这个中间都是为这些事情，不是老就是病，都是苦，都是死的前行。