【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- What is great perseverance?

"The winds of ethical discipline," and then it blows on the fires of recitation. When you recite, it is done with "great perseverance" This recitation is not done only by mouth - our mind, the mind is now concordant with it. Since the mind is now concordant with the teaching, you must have eradicated non-concordant behaviors. Do you understand this? Therefore, it is called the great perseverance. What is "perseverance"? The definition of perseverance does not just mean exerting strength! It is an effort that concords with virtues, this is called perseverance. If you are reciting, you are prostrating, [thinking], “I can sit in a full lotus position for two hours in one sitting and that I have prostrated 500 times today!" But if you are thinking wildly in your thoughts, I am sorry, you have been lazy. That is useless, useless! Therefore, to truly persevere, you must be like this: you will abide strictly by ethical discipline and you will have a grasp of it in your mind when you practice. This is the first one.

SOURCE 来源 :

63A 26’37” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P233 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P253

日常师父法语📡63A 26’37”手抄稿第8册P233 L8

业果 : 什么叫精进？

“戒风”，然后呢吹这个念诵的火，这个念诵的时候是“大精进焰”，这个念不是嘴巴里唱哦—心，现在的心跟它相应的。所以现在的心既然跟法相应了，一定破掉不相应的现行，这个了解不了解？所以叫大精进。什么叫“精进”？精进的定义不是说你在那里拼命地出力哦！就是说善法相应的努力，这个才叫精进。如果说你在念，在那儿磕头，“哎呀，我可以一口气坐两个钟头双盘，然后今天拜个五百拜！”但是你心里面胡思乱想，对不起，懈怠，没有用，没有用！所以真正地精进的话，就是一定是这样：持戒持得很严，然后呢心里面把握住地这样地去做，第一个。