【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】There are no causes of staying alive that cannot become causes of death 实不见有诸活缘，非死缘者
【Mindfulness of Death】- There are no causes of staying alive that cannot become causes of death
【In other words, you seek such things as food and drink, shelter, and friends in order not to die, but even these can become causes of death. For instance, you may consume the wrong food and drink, or consume too much or too little. Your shelter could crumble, or your friends could deceive you】
As such, to ensure our survival “in order not to die”, we seek after the conditions for life. Now that we are alive, what else do we need? Food, then a place to stay, next we want our relatives and friends etc. These are the things. End result? In seeking after “food”, if you consume too much, it is not good, consuming too little is not good either. If you consume the wrong type of food and drink, it is not good as well. Drawing from my own experience, two days ago, I took some fried food as it was someone’s well wishes for me. The food was fried very fragrantly, but after eating it, I was in pain for a few days, and still have not recovered. It’s quite clear, isn’t it? Right here before us. Next, it’s regarding shelter. You built anice home; but sorry, should it run into problem, it could crumble. And then, your close family and friends, etc. all maybe well and good; but after a couple of days, they may become enemies, sue each other in court, and battle over each other mercilessly without caring for the other party’s life or death. All these are conditions for life, but alas,consequently, they can become the causes of death.Therefore,
【Thus, it is clear that there are no causes of staying alive that cannot become causes of death】
If you do not observe, and still feel justified of the need to have this and have that. If you really observe, you will realize that these immediate things, none of them is not causes of death.
SOURCE 来源 :
40A 01’00” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P242 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P156
日常师父法语📡40A 01’00”手抄稿第5册P242 L1
念死无常 : 实不见有诸活缘，非死缘者
【为不死故，求诸饮食房舍伴等，此复由其受用饮食，太多太少及不相宜，房舍倒塌，亲友欺侮，是等门中而成死缘，】
所以说，我们为了求活，“为不死故”，就为了求活。求了生活要什么？要饮食啊，然后要住的地方啊，又要亲戚朋友等等啊，为了这个。结果呢？为了求“饮食”，你受用的太多也不好，太少也不好，吃了不相宜也不好。那我这两天就是这样，人家一番好心，把它油炸，炸得香香的，结果把我吃得痛了几天，到今天还在那儿不好，这不是很明白吗？就摆在这里。然后呢“房舍”，你造的好好的房子，对不起，它等一下万一有毛病，塌倒了，又。然后呢你“亲友”等等啊，大家觉得满好，过两天翻脸成仇，大家打官司，弄得个你死我活。这都是活缘哪，欸，结果也成死缘。所以啊，
【是等门中而成死缘。故实不见有诸活缘，非死缘者。】
你不观察，还觉得要求这个、求那个；你如果真的一观察的话，你会发现眼前这个东西啊，没有一个不是。