【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- Why can’t you lift your spirit up?

We would often feel that, "Ah-ya, it's so hard to lift our spirits up!" Why is it that you cannot lift your spirit up? Why can't you lift your spirit up? You might want to find the cause of this first. It is mainly what? You are afraid of suffering. You are nonetheless after some small happiness. But here, it tells us very clearly that when you seek after some small happiness, you will have to endure great suffering, great suffering! Therefore here, it is exactly because you can't lift your spirit up and you have a lax attitude that you need to particularly make efforts at this! You need to particularly make efforts at this! What if you just can't do this, what will you do? The best method is to rely on the community, to rely on the excellent teacher.

But now, you can't lift yourself up and you are not willing to rely on anyone. If you feel that it's best to find yourself a place [just for yourself now], then it's over for you, it's over you! This is why I will often tell you that to lock yourself in a shack to practice is a very dangerous thing. If you are qualified, then go ahead. You can practice by yourself. That's excellent! However if you are not qualified, when you live in a shack, you will feel that it's just right when no one comes to bother you. You will do things just as you please. You will feel that your life is very comfortable. A little comfort now will bring infinite suffering in the future!

SOURCE 来源 :

61B 27’48” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P178 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P248

日常师父法语📡61B 27’48” 手抄稿第8册P178 L1

业果 : 为什么提不起来？

我们往往感觉到：哎呀，这个提起来是真难哪！你为什么提不起来啊？为什么提不起来？你自己不妨先找这个因，而这主要的无非是什么？怕苦，无非是贪一点快乐。但是这个地方，很明白告诉我们，你贪一点小小的快乐，受到的大苦，受到的大苦！你所以这个地方，正因为你提不起来，放逸，所以那地方尤其需要努力啊！尤其需要努力啊！那么万一碰见情况不行的，怎么办呢？那最好的办法，就是依靠—依所谓依众靠众，依靠那个善知识。

现在呢，自己也提不起来，又不愿意依靠，最好找一个地方，那你完了，那就完了！这是所以我为什么常常说，自己关起来到茅篷里边去，是一件危险的事情。你如果这个条件具足了，去，一个人专门修，那好极了！如果你这个条件不具足，跑到那个茅篷里面正好，反正没人管，你爱怎么办就怎么办，你觉得过的生活来得个舒服。一点点眼前的舒服，将来受无穷大苦啊！