【Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels】- 《Man Fa Jing (慢法经)》

Therefore, with the three scriptural collections, there is one scripture called, 《Anan Wen Fo Jixiong Jing (阿难问事佛吉凶经) 》, and another one called《Man Fa Jing (慢法经)》、《Fo Shuo Man Fa Jing (佛说慢法经)》. As for the content of the scripture, let me give you a general outline. The text says, “Someone had served the Three Jewels and obtained merits. There are others who have served the Three Jewels, yet not only have they not gained merits, they have fallen [into miserable realms]. Why?” Buddha told him, “Simple, you who have served with pure faith and respect will gain immeasurable merits. If you do not have that, then sorry, it would be bad!” Therefore, now here, we should not be complaining, we just have to see if we have pure faith. We should think back right now; the earlier section of refuge had already told this to us. This was said clearly before, to go for refuge, you need both the internal and external factors. The Teacher has already fully realized the external factor. The primary problem is that we lack of the internal factor. Therefore, we are making efforts to learn here. If we cannot do this, that is when we should say, “Ah, too bad! Why is it that I have not made any efforts? I must strive!

SOURCE 来源 :

48A 21’01” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P263 LL7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P200

日常师父法语📡48A 21’01”手抄稿第6册P263 LL7

皈依 : 《慢法经》

所以三藏当中，有一部叫《阿难问事佛吉凶经》，另外一部经叫《慢法经》，《佛说慢法经》，这个经内容，我说一个大纲。说：“有的人侍候了三宝，得到功德；有的人侍候了三宝，不但得不到功德，堕落了。为什么？”佛就告诉他：“简单，你啊，以净信心恭敬去侍候，就得到无量无边的功德，你没有这个东西，对不起，你害了！”所以现在这里我们不要埋怨，就看看自己有没有净信心。马上就回忆一下，皈依的前面已经告诉我们了，前面说得很清楚，这个皈依当中，内外两支，外支是大师已成，最主要的就是我们内支不足，所以我们在这里努力修学。如果说做不到的话，那个时候才应该：哎呀，可惜啊！这个我为什么不努力啊？好好地努力啊！