【 Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels 皈依 】Take hold of the opportunity to serve 把握承事的机会

【Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels】- Take hold of the opportunity to serve

【If we become even more ignorant, what will we be able to do?" 】

If we get any more ignorant, any more inferior, what else can we do? We already feel that it is really difficult to be here right? We already feel that it is difficult to advance. Buddha is obviously here, we are sitting in the Buddha’s shrine room but we only see wood statues and we only see paper. That is [the result] of our ignorance! This is obviously the most venerable field, the field of most merits. Yet once we have this field, we are not even capable of cultivating anything in this field. At least for now, we feel that we can still see and we still have the opportunity to serve! Therefore, while we can, we should take advantage of this opportunity to strive diligently, to strive diligently! Hence this phrase, if we become even more ignorant, by then, you would not be able to do anything!

SOURCE 来源 :

47A 28’56” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P226 L3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P196

日常师父法语📡47A 28’56” 手抄稿第6册P226 L3

皈依 : 把握承事的机会

【若愚过此，更有何能。」】

如果我们再愚笨、再差一点，我们还能做什么呀？现在我们已经感觉得辛苦万分了，对不对？已经感觉得爬不上去了，明明佛在这个地方，坐在这个佛堂里边，我们看见就是木头，我们看见就是张纸，那就是我们的愚痴耶！明明这是最恭敬的大敬田，最大的大功德田，我们有了这个田，就没有办法在这个田里面增长一点东西。可是至少我们现在还觉得看得见哪，而且我们还有机会去承事啊！所以一定要趁这个机会好好努力、好好努力啊！所以这句话—若更愚痴的话，那时候你就一点办法都没有啦！