【 Cultivating Ethical Behaviour 业果】a vast difference between the purity of having never been tarnished by a fault from the beginning and the purity attained ...不犯VS忏干净大差别
【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- a vast difference between the purity of having never been tarnished by a fault from the beginning and the purity attained through confession of that fault
【Through confession and restraint you can purify yourself of sins without any remainder. However, there is a vast difference between the purity of having never been tarnished by a fault from the beginning and the purity attained through confession of that fault.】
Though you can confess and eliminate it, but between the purification and not having been tarnished by a fault from the beginning, there is a great difference between the two!
【For example, the Bodhisattva Levels says:444
You can redress the occurrence of a root infraction through adopting the bodhisattva vow. However, it will be impossible to attain the first bodhisattva level in this lifetime.】
The Bodhisattva Levels tells us, if you have incurred a root infraction, , it is completely broken. After it is broken, you can confess to purify the sin, readopt the vows, and you can still have the purity. As for maintaining the purity, it is the same. But with respect to attaining merits, it will be different. In this lifetime, you will definitely not be able to reach first stage Bodhisattva. For us now, since we are in the degenerate age, we always feel that we have no hope. But actually, in the time of the sublime teaching, yes! There is such a possibility. Actually, up till now, the complete teaching remains. There is such a possibility. Hence the root vows are absolutely, absolutely important! You absolutely should not break it! This is the reason here!
SOURCE 来源 :
65A 09’39” Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P8 L10
English Lamrim Vol 1 P257
日常师父法语📡65A 09’39” 手抄稿第9册P8 L10
业果 : 不犯VS忏干净大差别
【又由悔护清净无余，然从最初无罪染之清净，及由悔除清净之二，有大差殊。】
虽然可以忏干净，但是这个忏干净跟一开始没有犯，两样东西有绝大的差别哦！
【犹如〈菩萨地〉中所说，犯根本罪，虽可重受菩萨律仪，而能还出，然于此生，决定不能获得初地，】
〈菩萨地〉上面告诉我们，你犯了根本罪以后，唉，完全坏掉了。坏掉了以后，你虽然忏悔干净，重受，你还是可以得到清净。对于得到清净那一点来说是一样的，但是要证得功德那一点来说，那就不一样了，这一生哪，你决定不能获得初地。以我们现在来说，因为我们末法了，我们好像总是没有希望。实际上正法的时候—是！有这个可能。实际上一直到现在，都尚且有这个圆满的教法，有这个可能。所以它那个根本的戒是绝对、绝对地重要！绝对不能破坏！原因就在此。