【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】The biggest obstacle is considering what is really impermanent to be permanent. 修行最大的障碍：常颠倒

【Mindfulness of Death】- The biggest obstacle is considering what is really impermanent to be permanent.

Therefore everything has its complete principle, if you move up step by step conscientiously in accordance with the stages, you would have obtained the correct method from the virtuous teacher. And the first stage of the correct guidance is: “This human life is very hard to come by. It has great benefits but quite easy to lose”. If you do not make good use of this human body and lose it, you are truly like an animal, in reality, worse than an animal! What should you do once you have this human body? Practice. Then when you start to practice, what is the biggest and first obstacle? The first obstacle of the four errors: “Considering what is really impermanent to be permanent”. Therefore, it tells you the fact of impermanence. Needless to mention, once these two things (death and impermanence) arise, how can you not recite the Buddha’s name? The mindfulness of death is compelled in here! Thus once the thoughts arise you will recite the Buddha’s name. Amazingly, any practitioner who has truly practiced impermanence shares the same experience: as he recites the Buddha’s name; simultaneously the strength of impermanence remains with him. Hence once he ceases to recite the Buddha’s name, the strength of impermanence will arise propelling him to continue with his practice.

SOURCE 来源 :

39B 14’15” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P229 L2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P154

日常师父法语📡39B 14’15”手抄稿第5册P229 L2

念死无常 : 修行最大的障碍：常颠倒

它任何一样东西，有它完整的道理，照着这个次第，如果你认真地一步一步上来，你得到了善知识告诉你正确的方法。而这个正确的引导的第一个，你说：哎呀，这个人身是非常难得啊，它有这么大的利益，而又这么容易失去；假定你失去了这么难得的人身，不好好利用的话，那真是等如畜生，实际上还不如畜生哪！所以这个得到的时候，唯一的干什么？修行。然后你要修行了，修行最大的障碍，第一个什么？四颠倒当中的常颠倒。所以告诉你，所以也用无常。不要别的，这个两样东西一旦生起来了，你能不念佛吗？那个死的念头就逼在这个地方啊！所以你一想到就念佛了。凡是真正修过无常观的人，妙了！他一面念佛，一面这个无常的力量一直在；所以他那个佛号一停止，无常的力量就追着来了，他就停不住。