【 Cultivating Ethical Behaviour 业果】Know and do 为什么感得末法
【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- Know and do
…act the opposite, some would say, "Ah-ya, the vows were stipulated morethan 3000 years ago by the Buddha! That was then. The time and place now are different! Didn't the Buddha say we should follow the rules suitable to the local conditions? Right! So, the time is different and the location is different, therefore, there is no need to worry about them (the vows)!" Eh, this sounds reasonable! So, you would feel this yourself, "Eh, even if the Buddha is present now, He may not stipulate the same set of vows!" You might sound reasonable. But very easily, you will have readily abandoned the vows. And then, you will have found the greatest excuse for yourself, you don't even know. After this, it could be possible that through a small thing like this, you may have engendered something very serious, very serious. That is why we must think this way, "It's true! There is no mistake. There is a difference in time and place, but may I ask then, by the way I am asking myself this, why do I bear the effect of having been born in a degenerate time? Why was I not born in the time of the sublime teaching?" Why do you not view it from this perspective? As you think like this you will feel shame and embarrassment. You will feel contrite. You will feel that there isn't enough time to strive. Would you still be saying, "Yes! That was 3000 years ago. If the Buddha appeared now, the vows would be different!" This whole idea will be corrected. So, the view can be off by just this little bit! This is a concept that we must understand!
SOURCE 来源 :
65A 15’40” Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P11 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P257
日常师父法语📡65A 15’40”手抄稿第9册P11 LL2
业果 : 为什么感得末法
反过来，你现在有人说：“哎呀，这个是佛在三千年以前制的啦！那个是时代啊，那个时候所处的地点跟现在不一样啦！佛不是说那个随方毗尼吗？对啊！现在时间也不同，地点也不同，这个也你不要去管它啦！”欸，讲得很有道理啊！然后你还自己觉得：“欸，如果是佛在现在的话，制的戒也一定不是这样的哦！”你讲得很有道理，很容易地，你心里面就轻弃掉了这个戒。然后呢，自己找了最大的藉口也不知道，下面去，很可能由这样一点小小的地方，引发了非常严重的，非常严重的。所以我们必定要想：“是啊！没有错，这个时、地是有不同的，但是请问（这个所谓请问是问我自己啊），为什么我感得现在的末法，感不到世尊正法时候啊？”你为什么不从这个眼光去想？你一想到这里就惭愧，然后你就懊悔，拼命都来不及，还会说：“对啊！三千年以前的，如果世尊在现在的时候不这样了！”你这个概念就整个改掉了，所以这个知见就差一点点哦！这一个概念我们要了解哦！