【Reflecting on your Future Life】- big liar friend

In the earlier sections, whether it is on a human life of leisure and opportunity, on the difficulty of obtaining leisure and opportunity, the fleetingness of death and impermanence, all revolve around the main theme of suffering. This is also the first step to learning and practicing Buddhism. You want to practice this until what level? Until you develop great disenchantment.

Therefore we can stop here for a moment and think about this. If we understand this principle, then it’s very convenient [to use]. If we do not understand this principle, we can contemplate on some of the previous examples and we will then immediately achieve a sound understanding. What example? We said before that let’s say you have a close friend, and you two are usually very close, like two peas in a pod, hard to separate the two of you. Then all of a sudden a person comes to tell you, “So and so! You are so close to this person normally, but he is actually a big liar. He is out particularly to criticize you behind your back all the time, and hurt you behind your back. He has also led you this way….. If this is true, and once you discover the truth, may I ask you, would you still befriend this person? I think no one would be an exception, once you know for certain the truth, you will realize this good friend of yours is a big liar who has done nothing except hurting you. You will develop a great dislike.

SOURCE 来源 :

42B 07’39” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P54 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P174

日常师父法语📡42B 07’39”手抄稿第6册P54 LL6

三恶趣苦 : 大骗子朋友

前面不管是暇满人身也好，说暇满难得，以及死没无常的迅速也好，都是绕着苦这个中心在转，这也是修学佛法的第一步。到什么程度呢？策发大厌离。

所以我们到这地方可以停一下，想一想。假定说我们懂得这个道理，那很方便；假定我们懂不得这个道理，可以随便把以前运用过的这些例子来思惟一下，马上就生起这个正确的认识。哪一个例子啊？说平常有一个好朋友，那你两个人平常好得不得了，说如膏如漆、难舍难分的。忽然有一天有个人跑得来告诉你说：“某人哪！你平常跟他一直好，其实这个是个大骗子欸，他专门在背后说你坏话，他背后专门伤害你，然后呢最后引你怎么……。”假定这个事实，一旦你发现真的话，请问这个好朋友你还愿意跟他来往吗？我想没有一个人例外的，一旦真正确定了解，这个好朋友原来是大骗子，专门伤害你的话，你就对他起一个绝大的厌恶之心。