【Reflecting on your Future Life】- If we do not thoroughly contemplate the sufferings of falling into the miserable realms …

【If you do not contemplate these things now, when you fall into a miserable realm, you will not find a refuge to protect you from these terrors even though you seek one. At that time, you will not have the intelligence to understand that which you should adopt and that which you should cast aside. 】

If we do not thoroughly reflect and analyze this principle now, then due to your lack of contemplation, of course you will not practice. If you do not practice, you will have created many non-virtuous causes. After you create non-virtuous causes, you will certainly go [to miserable realms]. Like that. Therefore, you will not have any method of escaping this place. So if you do not contemplate the principles, well then even though you do not wish to fall, it would be impossible [not to], it would be impossible [not to]! Once you fall, you can do absolutely nothing then because at that time, you will not be capable of discerning what you should adopt and what you should cast aside. Do animals have this ability to discern? Do hungry ghosts and hell beings have the ability to discern? Even if you are capable, when you are in great pain, can you make discernments? I think this is something that every one of us can understand. This is where we need to really exhort ourselves, think about it.

SOURCE 来源 :

42B 19’05” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P60 L2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P175

日常师父法语📡42B 19’05” 手抄稿第6册P60 L2

三恶趣苦 : 假定没有好好思维堕恶趣苦...

【若于现在不思彼等，堕恶趣时，虽求从彼畏怖之中，救护依处，然不能得。尔时于其应不应作，无慧力故，不能取舍。】

假定现在不好好地去思惟观察这个道理，然后呢因为你不思惟，当然你不修习；不修习，造了众多恶因，造了恶因非去不可，这样，所以你没有办法跳出这个地方。所以说如果说你不思惟这个道理，那么虽然你想不要堕落，也不可能，也不可能！而且一旦堕落了以后，你到了那时候是一点办法都没有，因为到了那个时候，你根本没有能力辨别什么是该做的，什么是不该做的。畜生有能力辨别吗？饿鬼、地狱有能力辨别吗？就算你有能力，你痛苦得这个样子，你能辨别吗？这是我想我们人人可以体会到的，这个地方我们好好地策励，思惟一下。