【Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels】- the characteristic of the teaching

What is then fixing your attention properly on the teachings? Once you understand the principle, then you can follow this principle and fix your attention properly. To fix your attention is to bring it to mind, then reflect upon and analyze it. If you can do so this way, our afflictions will be purified. This is the characteristic of the teaching, which has been said earlier. What is the characteristic of the teachings? It purifies defilement. Defilement is affliction. Now, this exact remedy can subdue and cease afflictions and this is the true teaching. This is what we should truly learn and practice. Now that we are fortunate enough to rely on an excellent teacher and have been able to listen to what is correct and errorless, we should then follow and practice. If you can follow and practice accordingly, then at that time you can subdue and cease your afflictions. That is the time you can go about to practice. At this time, however much [afflictions] you are able to subdue and cease, that is however much defilements can be cleared away, however much obscurations cleared away, however much good qualities increased, however much wealth of the teaching obtained, and however much Dharma bliss gained. This is what cultivation is, this is what cultivation is!

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46A 10’09” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P182 L5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P193

日常师父法语📡46A 10’09” 手抄稿第6册P182 L5

皈依 : 法的特质

那么怎么是如理作意呢？那你懂得了这个道理以后，然后你照着这个道理这样去作意；「作意」就是提起我们的脑筋来，在这个上面去思惟观察。你能够这样去的话，那么照着这样的话，能净我们烦恼。这个是法的特质，前面已经说过了，法的特质是什么？清净染污相的。染污是烦恼，现在呢这个正对治是能静息烦恼，这个才是真正的法，这个才是我们真正应该修学的。现在我们有幸亲近善知识，能够听到正确无误的，就应该照着它去做。你照着它去做的话，那个时候你能够静息你的烦恼，那个时候你才去做。这个时候静息多少，你就净除多少杂染，清除多少罪障，增长多少功德，得到多少法财，得到多少法喜，这个才是修行，这个才是修行欸！