【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】 Life span increases by the day? 天增岁月人增寿？

【Mindfulness of Death】- Life span increases by the day?

“The Descent into the Womb Sutra says:

Currently, if we protect our bodies well in order to live comfortably, we will live, at the longest, one hundred years or a little more.” It states, if we are able to protect our bodies very well, at most we will live until one hundred years. “Thus, the maximum is no more than this.” The longest is as such. The following phrase is of essence. When we see it, we should feel heart wrenched! “Even though it may be possible to live this long, the time until death passes very quickly.” Even if you can live up till a hundred years old, the time within which moves very quickly, very quickly!

【A year is consumed with the passage of months; months with the passage of days; and days with the passage of day and night, also with such periods of time as a morning, etc. Thus, few of us reach the expected life span of one hundred years,】

Time passes really quickly and our life span continuously reduces. If we do not observe, we will not notice it. If we spend some time and look closely, isn’t this the case? When you are contemplating, every minute of our life passes and moves forward. You can ask other things to stop, however, you can never say “Let me stop for a moment and let the lifetime be extended longer by another second.” This is impossible. This is looking at it in a micro way. Looking at it in a macro manner, it seems like this, we will usually say “Every additional year to heaven’s age is an addition to human’s age”, this is really absurd, really absurd! As the day passes, the lifetime decreases. As we live for another day, our life span decreases by one day. Yet we say the life span increases by the day, this is totally absurd!

SOURCE 来源 :

38B 18’44” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P198 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P150

日常师父法语📡38B 18’44” 手抄稿第5册P198 L8

念死无常 : 天增岁月人增寿？

如《入胎经》云：“若于现在善能守护，长至百年或暂存活。”说眼前如果你能够保护得非常好，最多也活个一百岁，“极久边际仅有尔许”，最长也就是这样。下面这个话，这是每一句话啊，在我们看见这里的话，就要痛心万分哪！“纵能至彼，然其中间寿尽极速”，就算你能够活到一百岁，但是中间哪，非常快、非常快！

【谓月尽其年，日尽其月，其日亦为昼夜尽销。此等复为上午等时而渐销尽，故其寿命总量短少。】

时间过得真快，所以寿命一直在短。我们不观察也就算了，观察一下，你们每一个人当下看看，请问是不是这样的？当你念头观察的时候，那个寿命在向前走，别的东西你可以叫它停一下，你绝不可能说：“我停一下，把那个寿命多活一秒钟。”没有这个可能，这是短的地方来看。长的地方来看，我们现在看看觉得好像这样，我们往往这样说“天增岁月人增寿”，这个真是颠倒、真是颠倒啊！天是增了岁月，人是减寿了。活一天我们的寿命就少一天，结果我们说人增寿，何其颠倒！