【Mindfulness of Death】- you have no means to resist the four great mountains

【You do not escape by fleeing from death, nor can you turn death away by such things as mantras. The Advice to the King Sutra (Rajavavadaka) says:
For example, four great mountains from the four directions – being hard, firm, solid-cored, indestructible, unsplittable, with-out fissures, extremely resilient, and massed into one – rise up into the sky and destroy the earth. All the grasses, trees, trunks, branches, leaves, and all sentient beings, living beings, and creatures are crushed to dust. When these mountains come, it will not be easy to quickly run away, or to turn them away with force, wealth, magic substances, mantras, or medicine. Great King, in the same way, these four frights come, and it is not easy to quickly run away, or to turn them away with force, wealth, substances, mantras, or medicine.]

According to the sutra mentioned above, it’s like the four great mountains. That great mountain usually represents the mightiest amongst all the mountains. In actual fact, we are made up of four elements. We cannot afford to have any one of these four deteriorate. These great mountains are extremely hard and indestructible. If they come crashing upon us, what is there for us to stop them? Nothing can be used to block them. These words are very easy to understand theoretically thus we shall not go into detail. When this frightful experience comes, it is just like birth, aging, sickness and death. You have no means of resisting it.

SOURCE 来源 :

38B 12’19” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P193 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P149

日常师父法语📡38B 12’19” 手抄稿第5册P193 L6

念死无常 : 没有力量挡得住“四大山王”

【于其死主逃不能脱，非以咒等而能退止，如《教授胜光大王经》云：“譬如若有四大山王，坚硬隐固成就坚实，不坏不裂无诸陨损，至极坚强纯一实密。触天磨地从四方来，研磨一切草木本干及诸枝叶，并研一切有情有命诸有生者，非是速走易得逃脱，或以力退，或以财退，或以诸物及咒药等易于退却。大王，如是此四极大怖畏来时，亦非于此速走能逃，或以力退，或以财退，或以诸物及咒药等易于退却。】

这个引一个经上面说，就像四个大山王，通常那个山王表示这个山当中最厉害的。实际上呢我们就是四大所造，它这个东西啊，就是损的时候，彼此之间有消损就不行了。这个山王啊坚固无比，“触天磨地”这样地过来，你有什么东西可以挡得住的？没有一样东西可以挡得住的，这个文字很容易懂，我们就不一一地细细解释了。所以这一个怖畏来的时候—生老病死，然后这么来的时候，你没有任何力量可以挡得住。