【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】If you prepare for death every day, you will accomplish many goals for your next life. 若日日中筹备死事，则多成办他世义利

【Mindfulness of Death】- If you prepare for death every day, you will accomplish many goals for your next life.

【If you prepare for death every day, you will accomplish many goals for your next life.】

On the other hand, if you prepare for death every day, because you think of death and are afraid to die, you will go all way out to practice, then hey, you will have prepared many benefits for your next life. Once you think ‘I will die today’, would you still be busy with your present life? Of course not and you will practice with all one’s might. If you practice recitation and once you think of death, you will practice recitation with all one’s might. Wouldn’t it be good?

【Hence, even if you do not die today, you will have done well. 】

Yes, perhaps you may think “Today I will die” but you actually do not die today. If you are able to think daily that you will die, what are the benefits? You have devoted yourself in accumulating virtuous karma. Under such condition, assuming that you do not die, it is just good as you are accumulating more and more virtuous karma! Therefore, the key point is not about guessing [whether we will die today], like whether or not you will win the country’s lottery ticket. If you persist to adopt the thought that today you are certain to die, you will strive to practice virtue. Isn’t that very good? If you do not die, since you accumulate virtue daily, it is even better! If you die, you are already prepared. We must understand why it urges us to adopt that we will definitely die today.

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39B 07’25” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P225 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P154

日常师父法语📡手抄稿第5册P225 LL6

念死无常 : 若日日中筹备死事，则多成办他世义利

【若日日中筹备死事，则多成办他世义利，】

假定你天天想着今天一定死，噫！因为你想着死、怕死，所以你拼命修行，于是，嘿！将来好处你都事先准备好了。一想到今天要死，那你还忙这些现在的事情吗？当然不忙了，于是你拼命修行。如果念佛的，因为你一想到死，拼命念佛。这种情况岂不好？

【纵不即死，造作此事亦为善哉，】

是的，也许说今天你想了“今天死”，可是它不死。如果你能够天天想到死，这样的话，有什么好处啊？你整个都在那儿积聚善法，积聚善法，在这种情况之下，天天不死正好嘛，你这个善法愈积愈多嘛！所以它真正的重心，不是说今天决定说猜它，像猜爱国奖券，猜得中不中；你如果说能够执取今天必死那件事情的话，于是你努力修善法，努力修善法的话，那不是很好嘛！你天天积的善法，如果说不死的话，那更好啊！万一你死的话，欸，你已经有准备了，这是我们要了解，它所以要告诉我们执今天必死的原因。