【Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels】- My mind, though weak, has broadened like a river in the rainy season

The past master, actually, let us say that we speak of Sri Matrceta, this great master. In India, who were they then? They are great sages, most excellent in the knowledge of both mundane and supramundane world. What does he need to have? Why has he succeeded? Yet why are we so foolish? That is, there, because he has virtuous roots, he has the root which is common to the world and then he learns the teaching. That is how he is able to go deeper.

Where does this kind of great virtuous roots come from? "By depending on you." This is said very clearly, in dependence of the Three Jewels. [This would happen] if you can practice according to the teachings and follow the above method to offer. This offering is divided into attitude, action, materials and practice. Each of them, perhaps even in drinking a sip of water, you can do this in doing anything. Even when you offer one stick of incense before the Buddha, to sweep the floor, or even to pick up a little trash, or perhaps you see how things were not arranged right, but you go and arrange it correctly. If you can do this, " My mind, though weak, has broadened like a river in the rainy season." What are the rivers like in the summer? After the winter, the snow has fallen on the mountain in the winter. The snow is frozen there. Then water which flows down from before has flowed until it is almost dried. Ah, but when summer comes and the sun comes, day and night, the snow from the mountain will gradually, gradually melt and flow down. It does not matter whether it rains or not, the snow melt will become greater and greater. Therefore, as long as you are willing to do this, it will become like that.

SOURCE 来源 :

48A 29’18’’ & 48B 00’09’’ Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P267 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P201

日常师父法语📡48A 29’18’’ & 48B 00’09’’手抄稿第6册P267 LL2

皈依 : 如夏季江河，虽小极增长

我们现在说马鸣菩萨这个大祖师，他们印度，他们都是什么—大班智达，他们对世、出世间的学问都是最了不起的。他都要有什么？他为什么成功？为什么我们这么愚痴啊？就是—喏，他有善根，他有了世间的这个根本，然后去修学，才能够真正地深入。

这种大善根哪来的？我的智慧依尊故，说得很清楚—依三宝。你能够如法地去，照着上面的方式去供养的话，这个供养分意乐、分加行、分财敬、分正行，一样一样，乃至于喝一口水，做任何事情。乃至于跑到佛前面去上一根香，乃至于扫一个地，乃至于捡掉一点点垃圾，乃至于你看见这个东西排不对的，把它排排好。你能够这样去做，“如夏季江河，虽小极增长”，这个夏季的江河是怎么样？经过一个冬天以后啊，那个冬天山上都下了雪了，冻在那个地方，然后原来的水，流、流、流、流、流，都流得快干了。欸，结果到了夏季。然后呢太阳来了以后，它日夜地、慢慢地山上的雪，不管你下雨、不下雨，那个雪融下来越来越大、越来越大。