【Reflecting on your Future Life】- what we should really put to practice vs we only do what we like to do

【Neu-sur-ba (sNe'u-zur-pa) said:
      Examine  】
First, he tells us what we should really put to practice now, something we should do now!   With the things that we do now, this is very interesting because we only do what we like to do instead of doing what we should do.  Can you tell the difference between what we like to do and what we should do?  What we should do is usually something we don’t like to do and are not willing to do.  Buddha has already told us what we should do, but we don’t necessarily do them, we just do what we like to do.  However, what we like to do always fall under the influence of ignorance and will always send us to hell. Therefore, whenever the text says “should”, you want to alarm yourself, “should,” what should we do here?  We should recognize our ignorance and follow Buddha’s correct view.  That is how we should learn from the Buddha.  If you can’t get a grasp of this point, though we are ordained, and it’s the same for lay practitioners, though we feel that we are learning Buddhism, but we are actually still learning about the “self,” not Buddhism.

Then, what should we who are learning Buddhism do?  In our mind, we shouldn’t be looking for this person’s faults or that person’s faults.  We should examine the causes that I am creating. “The causes for being born here,” here means where?  The three miserable realms.  Ah, it’s an unspeakable suffering.  Why does one go there?  This is because he has created the causes.

SOURCE 来源 :

42B 12’01” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P56 LL5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P174

日常师父法语📡42B 12’01”手抄稿第6册P56 LL5

三恶趣苦 : 该做的事 VS 想做的事

【内坞嗉巴亦云：“应观能生彼中之因，】

说首先我们现在真正应该做的事情，这是我们应该做的哦！我们现在做的事情很有意思，我们只做我们想做的事情，而不做我们应该做的事情。这个我们想做的事情，跟我们应该做的事情，你们分得清楚吗？我们应该做的事情，我们往往不想去做，还不愿意去做。佛就告诉我们你应该这样做的，我们还不一定行，都是自己想做的事情；自己想做的事情，都是随顺着无明的，都是把我们送下地狱去的。所以这个地方凡是谈到“应”的时候，你就提醒自己：“应”，应什么？应把自己无明认识，应该听从佛的正知见，这个才是我们学佛。你如果这一点把握不住的话，我们现在虽然出了家，在家也是一样，虽然觉得学佛，你是学“我”，不是学佛。

那么我们现在学佛的人应该怎么办？脑筋里不是看说，这一个人不对，哪一个人不对；应该看看我现在造的因，“能生彼中之因”，说生到这个里边，哪里啊？三恶道，哎呀！苦不堪言，他为什么去的？因为造了这个业因。