【Reflecting on your Future Life】- suffering is the root cause to exhort us to practice II

After that we talked about mindfulness of death. Oh, this death portion talks about how life is very fleeting. After you’ve been busy for all your life, no matter how wonderful things are for you, it is like a dream at the end. Afterwards, all will die. Therefore, there isn’t much worth [to what you are pursuing]. The problem is that after you die, you’ll have to continue onwards, and where do you continue to go towards? You are led by your karma. Since one is led by karma, then we began to consider how, oh, one will fall into miserable realms. Thus as you think of this, [you realize] this won’t do! This won’t do! If you understand this and practice, then through practicing you will transcend and perhaps even become liberated from cyclic existence, rendering you unafraid of death. Therefore, when we cultivate mindfulness of death, the primary root cause for doing so is still suffering! It is very clear and very obvious. This is what we need to understand here.

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42A 28’50” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P60 L5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P174

日常师父法语📡42A 28’50”手抄稿第6册P60 L5

三恶趣苦 : 苦为策动修行的根本因 II

然后呢我们又讲念死，喔，这个死啊，说生前很快，忙了一辈子，不管你有什么好的，最后像一个梦一样，完了以后都死，所以没有什么价值。问题是死了以后啊，还继续下去，继续下去到哪里去啊？是由—被业所牵，而这个业所牵我们又考虑到，说喔唷，要堕落恶道去，所以想到这样来的话，不行！不行！假定说了解了这个修行了，然后你经过了修行以后，你能够超升乃至于了脱生死的，那个死你也不怕。所以念死本身，它主要的根本原因还是苦！很清楚、很明白，这个地方这是我们要了解的。