【Mindfulness of Death】- You should resolve and make a pledge: to cultivate now starting from now!

【After you have reflected in this way, you should resolve that since there is no certainty as to when the Lord of Death will destroy your body and life, you will practice the teaching right now, without assuming that you still have time.】

Do not ever assume that you still have time, never ever do that. You should resolve and make a pledge: to cultivate now starting from now! The previous big section talked about the decision to cultivate; cultivate, the decision to cultivate. But we will still procrastinate, right. Saying that we will cultivate, means we surely will, but do it gradually. Further, from here we understand that we must cultivate, but we need to have a life of leisure and opportunity body and also, death may come at any moment, and after we die, there is nothing left.Therefore, we must next understand that: not only must we cultivate, we must cultivate right away! Must cultivate right away! This is the second resolution whether you succeed or not. It will depend on this, depend on this.

SOURCE 来源 :

40A 15’11” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P248 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P157

日常师父法语📡40A 15’11”手抄稿第5册P248 LL2

念死无常 : 决断立下誓愿：从现在马上修

【莫谓有暇，应多立誓，决从现在而修正法。】

你不要以为还有时间，千万不可以啊！应该下决断的誓愿：从现在马上修！前面一个大段说决定要修；修，决定要修。但是我们还会拖延吧！说修是一定要修的，但是慢慢地来。那么更进一步，从这个地方了解，要修，一定要靠这个有暇满的身体的时候才可以。而既然这死亡随时可以来，而且一死了以后啊，什么东西都没有，所以进一步我们应该了解：不但要修，而且要当下就修，当下就修！这个是第二个决断，真正地成就与否，就在这一点上面，就在这一点上面。