【Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels】- learn until the year of the donkey.

We should not say that there are no excellent teachers; there are no students who want to learn! Who may the students be? It is “me!” If you keep coming to learn the “ego self” then what would be the year [of your real attainment]? That’s why the past masters used to say you would achieve in the year of the donkey. What is the year of the donkey? Is there a year of the donkey in the Chinese Zodiac Animal sign? There are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig, but there is no sign of the donkey. So throughout the rotation of the signs every 12 years, when you say you will achieve in the year of the donkey it implies you will not achieve anything in any year. That is because you focus on learning the “ego self”! Make a note of this – it is the internal factor! So in this part of the text and in many places as well, the text has pointed this out. Earlier, it has already pointed out our subjective aspects [or mental behavior], then later it will tell us again. Let’s all really strive, to strive, to strive really hard at it!

SOURCE 来源 :

43B 14’10” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P95 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P180

日常师父法语📡43B 14’10”手抄稿第6册P95 L8

皈依 : 学到驴年

我们现在不要说没有善知识，是没有学的弟子。哪一个学的弟子？就是「我」啊！你现在来一直来学「我」，请问你学到哪一年啊？所以祖师说：「学到驴年去。」什么叫驴年啊？你看看那十二生肖当中有没有驴年哪？鼠、牛、虎、兔、龙、蛇、马、羊、猴、鸡、狗、猪，就是没个驴。所以转来转去，十二年当中，你们学到驴年，你学到哪年学不成，因为你学的「我」嘛！这是注意到 -- 内支啊！那现在这地方都处处地方告诉我们，前面已经点出那个行相来了，然后呢后面再告诉我们，我们好好努力、努力，好好地努力！