【Mindfulness of Death】- Heaven gains in years, human reduces in lifespan

【Since life itself is headed toward death, the conditions for life would offer no security even if they were numerous.】

As a matter of fact, while we are living, and striving forward, life itself in reality is also headed towards, step-by-step moving towards death and step-by-step moving towards death. This is an absolute truth. Therefore, the view held by mundane world is of the opposite/erroneous, which is “every additional year to heaven’s age is an addition to human’s age”. For us who are cultivating the Dharma, we must understand that as time goes by, human beings’ life span is diminishing, and this reduction in life span unceasingly continues each moment. Therefore, it is as such for the passage of time, we who live in this world and seek after the various conditions for life will similarly cause the end result of death. Therefore, among all the conditions for life, none of them can offer any conviction.

SOURCE 来源 :

40A 08’38” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P245 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P157

日常师父法语📡40A 08’38” 手抄稿第5册P245 LL6

念死无常 : 天增岁月人减寿

【复次存活即是趣向于死没故。活缘虽多，然无可凭。】

实际上我们就活在那个时候，那个活着呀，向前的是活，也实际上就是一步一步走向死亡，一步一步走向死亡，这个是千真万确的事实。所以世间的颠倒的看法，是说“天增岁月人增寿”，那我们修学佛法的人要了解，时间一天一天地增长，天增岁月，人在减寿，而这个减是刹那不停啊！所以时间固然是如此，我们生活在时空当中，求生活的那些东西，也是处处会造成死亡的这个结果，所以所有的活缘哪，也没有一个可以凭信的。