【Mindfulness of Death】- The ruthless Lord of Death Murders powerful beings without purpose.

【Also, the Letter to Kaniska (Maha-raja-kaniska-lekha )says: The ruthless Lord of Death Murders powerful beings without purpose. While such murder is sure to come, What wise person would be relaxed?】

Then our lineage master tells us, the Yama, Lord of Hell will never say: I am compassionate! No, he won’t! Death is this cruel and meaningless. It will destroy all of us in the end.Therefore, once a truly wise person understands this, who is willing to be careless and relaxed?

【Hence, as long as that great unforgiving warrior
Has not fired the unstoppable arrow
From which there is no escape,
Strive for your own welfare.】

What is this situation like? It is like an extremely forceful arrow, when it is shot at us, we would definitely die. This arrow is not only very forceful but also absolutely accurate. In other words, we will definitely encounter this problem. Before this arrow is released and before we are shot to death by the arrow, we should strive at once! Strive at once! This is the first principle. It is divided into three sub-sections to help us engender this determination.

SOURCE 来源 :

39A 25’45” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P218 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P153

日常师父法语39A 25’45” 📡手抄稿第5册P218 L7

念死无常 : 无悲愍死主，无义杀士夫

【《迦尼迦书》中亦云：“无悲愍死主，无义杀士夫，现前来杀害，智谁放逸行。】

那么这个祖师也告诉我们，阎罗王他可是一点都不会说：“哎哟，我慈悲慈悲啊！”不会的，这个死这件事情，它就是这么残酷，对我们是毫无意义，把我们每一个人都最后被它摧毁。所以真正有智慧的人了解了这个，谁还肯马马虎虎放逸啊？

【故此极勇暴，猛箭无错谬，乃至未射放，当勤修自利。”】

这个就像什么？就像一支非常强有力的箭，而这支箭射到来的时候，我们一定送命，这支箭不但非常强有力，而且绝对不错。换句话说，我们一定会碰到这个问题，趁这支箭还没有放出来，趁我们还没有受这支箭射中死亡之前，赶快努力，赶快努力！这个是第一个根本，分三个项目，让我们产生这样的一个决心。