【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- Remedy sins through the four powers

【However, you should remedy sins through the four powers.】

After that, "sins" refer to deeds that are wrong by nature. This is how you can remedy the other wrongdoings, "through the four powers." This is what's next. Hence when we truly confess, when you have both of these, you can confess to clear away any wrongdoings.

【The Sutra Giving the Four Teachings (Catur-dharma-nirdesa-sutra)says:】

This cites from the sutra to substantiate.

【Maitreya, if bodhisattvas, the great heroes, possess these four teachings, then they will overcome any sins that they have committed and accumulated.】

The Buddha tells our Maitreya Bodhisattva, he said that if Bodhisattvas, the great heroes - not to mention ordinary beings - even though they are who they are, they could still incur. However, if they could follow the four teachings,then for all the sins that they have "committed and accumulated," these can be "overcome." They can be stopped. All these karma can all be cleared away. What are the four teachings?

【What are the four? They are the power of eradication; the power of applying remedies; the power of turning away from faults; and the power of the foundation.】

These four.

SOURCE 来源 :

62B 26’05” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P212 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P252

日常师父法语📡62B 26’05”手抄稿第8册P212 L7

业果 : 四力忏悔

【诸恶还出者，应由四力。】

然后呢，‘诸恶’，就是那个性罪，其他的罪还出之理，‘应由四力’，下面这个。所以真正我们忏悔的话，这两样东西同时具足，那么什么的罪都可以忏干净。

【《开示四法经》云：】

先引那个经上面证。

【“慈氏，若诸菩萨摩诃萨，成就四法，则能映覆诸恶已作增长。】

佛告诉我们弥勒菩萨，说菩萨摩诃萨—不要说我们凡夫—就是这样的，他们有的时候还会。如果说他能够照这四个办法去做的话，那么能够把“已作增长”这个业都能够“映覆”，就是遮止，都能够把这种业都能够净除。哪四个法呢？

【何等为四？谓能破坏现行，对治现行，遮止罪恶及依止力。”】

这四个。