【 Cultivating Ethical Behaviour 业果】Newspaper reading habit - 2 阅报习惯-2

【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- Newspaper reading habit - 2

I think many of you have had this experience. You may decide to not subscribe the newspapers anymore. After some time has lapsed, you've forgotten about it. But if you inadvertently come across some newspapers, oh! You will pick it up and perhaps sit down to read it for one to two hours. You will have completely forgotten yourself.

I have had this experience myself. I was living in the mountain with my teacher then. In the mountain, there was a place where there were no newspapers. So, I did not read the newspapers for a very long time. I also felt it was pretty good to not read the newspapers. But as soon as I went to the outside and saw some newspapers, I picked it up and eagerly read through it. That's exactly how it was. No matter how I tried I could not get rid of it, no matter how I tried I could not get rid of it! Later on, gradually through understanding what this treatise has told us, oh! I understand it. So here is the real issue. That is, one must come to see the exact faults of the object. You have seen the advantages of the object in the past. Actually, have we really seen its advantages? No, it is that we have accustomed ourselves to the habit, to become fond of it. Therefore, to become "accustomed" to, that's the difficulty to change. To truly remedy it, the only method is to see the object's faults.

SOURCE 来源 :

64B 07’31” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P275 L3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P255

日常师父法语📡64B 07’31” 手抄稿第8册P275 L3

业果 : 阅报习惯-2

我想你们很多人都有这种经验：你要不订报纸，过了一些时候也许你就忘记掉了，可是一旦看见了报纸，喔！你拿起来，说不定它一坐坐了一个钟头，二个钟头，你也忘记掉了。

这个当时我自己有这个经验。那时候我跟着法师住在那个山里面，那个山里面有一个地方完全没有报纸的，后来很久也不看报纸，我自己觉得不看报纸觉得满好。结果一旦跑到那个外面看见那个报纸，拿起来看了个起劲，就是这样，怎么弄这个就是拿不掉它，怎么弄拿不掉它！后来慢慢地由于这个本论的告诉我们，喔！了解了，原来这个真正的问题。就是说，它一定要正确地见到这个东西的过患，以前是见到它的好处—实际上我们真的见到它的好处啊？不是，是习惯养成功对它的爱好。所以这个“习”这个是很难改的，你真正要对治它的唯一的办法，你一定要见到它的害处。