【Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels】- We need a good environment to practice

This is why the environment we exposed ourselves to is very important, very important. In particular for us ordinary beings, therefore we must understand this principle. Now there are many practitioners who wish to cultivate, yet they lock the doors up and practice themselves. Good gracious! Now if one has achieved a certain level of qualifications and he wholeheartedly engages in meditative concentration, then yes, he should do so. However, in order to be at that level, how difficult that would be! For ordinary people, they are completely ignorant in the body and mind, completely defiled. If you lock yourself up here, you are destined to not achieve anything. You must expose yourself to a good environment where it can gradually exert an edifying influence on you so that you may improve yourself. This is a very important point.

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46B 10’30” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P198 L5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P194

日常师父法语📡46B 10’30” 手抄稿第6册P198 L5

皈依 : 修行需要好环境

这是为什么我们接近的环境非常重要、非常重要，尤其是我们凡夫，所以我们必定要懂得这个道理。现在很多修行人他要修行，要去关起门来自己去修的，真是！他如果说已经达到相当成就的条件，一心学定，是的，应该。但是达到这个，何等地不容易！普普通通的人，浑身心都是无知、都是杂染，你在这个地方一关的话，注定你，你就一点办法都没有。一定要在这个好的环境当中，去慢慢地薰陶，改善自己，这是很重要的一点。"