【Mindfulness of Death】- can waste our lives away

【The Descent into the Womb Sutra says:
Moreover, half of the one-hundred-year life span is covered by sleep. Ten years are childhood. Twenty years are old age. Sorrow, lamentation, physical suffering, mental discomfort, and agitation take up time. .】

Mental discomfort, physical suffering, or agitation, all these things wasted our life away. Therefore, if we still want to mind other people’s business, it will be our greatest loss! Nothing can surpass this loss greater than this. It is not that we do not mind other’s business but the question is till when? It is the right time when you have developed the spirit of enlightenment and true compassion to help others! That is the right time!

【Many hundreds of different physical illnesses also consume your time. 】

Then our body has many different physical illnesses which can take our lives away at any time.

SOURCE 来源 :

39A 12’48” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P212 L2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P153

日常师父法语📡39A 12’48”手抄稿第5册P212 L2

念死无常 : 都把寿命浪费掉了

【《入胎经》云：“此中半数为睡覆盖，十年顽稚，念年衰老，】

二十年是衰老，然后中间那一段由

【愁叹苦忧及诸恚恼亦能断灭，】

或者是心上面的忧愁，或者是身体上面的痛苦，又要啊，哎呀，精神为烦恼所使，这个凡是这个东西，都把我们的寿命浪费掉了。所以我们现在管别人的闲事，那是对自己最大的损失啊！最大的损失莫过于此。我们不是不管，要到什么时候？你发了菩提心，真正悲心帮忙别人，那个时候对了！

【从身所生多百疾病，其类非一亦能断灭。”】

然后我们身上生了毛病也不晓得多多少少，也随时能够把我们送命。