【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- turned my attention to the 《Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish》

【Pu-chung-wa said,】
Pu-chung-wa is one of the three heart disciples of Drom-don-ba.    
 
【"As I grow old, I have turned my attention to the Sutra
of the Wise and the Foolish."  】
 
Look!  Such great excellent teacher  had been cultivating all his life.  He said, “What do I do when I am old?”  “I have turned my attention to the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish.” What is the Wise and Foolish?  It is the Sutra of the Wise and Foolish.   This is to say that he has cultivated until an advanced age but what does he continue to read?  He reads the Sutra of the Wise and Foolish.  The Sutra of the Wise and Foolish contains numerous examples that we had often been using.  Such as a person had planted some cause in the causal period and therefore has been issued this type of effect.  This is why I encourage all of you to read this type of books thoroughly. Of course we should read the scriptures.  Or even those books in circulation, such as “Mr. Liao Fan” and “Yu-Jing-Yi-Gong meeting the Kitchen God,” all of them  elucidates the same idea.  These great excellent teachers continued to read these after an entire life of cultivation.  But as for us now, I feel that everyone is a Buddha since no one wants to read them eventhough having just begun in Buddhism. Of course, to view it positively, we would say everyone is a Buddha Bodhisattva who has come again, (if so) You are truly excellent.  But if we view this negatively, this shows how weighty our current karma is.  Hence we need to examine and exhort ourselves regarding this!   

SOURCE 来源 :

62B 12’49” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P205 LL1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P251

日常师父法语📡62B 12’49” 手抄稿第8册P205 LL1

业果 : 依附《贤愚》

【朴穷瓦云：】

朴穷瓦就是敦巴的三个心子最重要的，说：

【“我至老时，依附《贤愚》。”】

看看！这样的一位大善知识，他修行了一辈子，他说我到老了我还什么？“依附《贤愚》”，贤愚什么？《贤愚因缘经》。换句话说他一直修到老了，他一直还看什么？看那个，喏，《贤愚因缘经》。《贤愚因缘经》就是平常我们经常举的很多例子，说某人因地当中种了一个什么因，感得这个果。这是为什么我鼓励大家好好地看看像这种书，经上面固然我们要看，乃至于现在流通的，像《了凡四训》、《俞净意公遇灶神记》，无非都是说明了这个。那些大善知识修了一辈子到老了还要看，我们现在啊，我觉得真是人人都是佛菩萨，我们刚入佛门都不要看。这个当然从好的地方说都是佛菩萨再来人，那了不起；坏的地方来看的话，那表示我们现在的这个业太重。所以这一点我们要自己检查了然后策励呀！