【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- the power of applying remedies

Number two is the power of applying remedies. What is called a remedy?  It is to focus on the sickness and apply the medication to cure this old problem. This is the power.  What is the old problem?  It is an accumulated latent propensity since beginningless time.  In other words, since beginningless time, we have continued to do what? There, we have been engaging in this behaviour that accords with afflictions.  Since you have this type of current behaviour, the so called "seed" by the school of the conscious-only, or you can call it - the latent propensity.  This latent propensity runs very deep and it is very pronounced.   So if you want to remove this latent propensity now, you will need to rely on a second type of power to do so.  You will need to rely on a second type of power.  But this second power, how does it relate to the first power?  They are absolutely related!  Without having the first one, it would be  impossible to have the second one.  Why?  Because you are still carrying out your current behaviours, hence, you are continuing to accumulate.  What then are you remedying?  Hence after you eradicate your current behaviour, though it has been eradicated presently, but the force of this latent propensity from beginningless time remains.  This is when you will need to remove it.  That's the time you can talk about remedies.

SOURCE 来源 :

63A 15’28” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P227 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P252

日常师父法语📡63A 15’28” 手抄稿第8册P227 LL3

业果 : 对治力

这个第二个是对治力，什么叫对治呢？就是对症下药，治疗以前那个老毛病，这个力量。以前什么老毛病啊？就是无始以来的这个积习。换句话说无始以来，我们一直在什么？喏，烦恼相应的现行当中。因为你有这样的个现行，唯识上面所谓的种子，换句话说—习气，这个习气的力量很深很重，现在你要把那个习气，要把它拿掉，那么这个要靠第二个力量，要靠第二个力量。但是这个第二个力量，跟第一个有没有关系？绝对有关系！没有第一个，绝不可能有第二个。为什么呀？因为你现在第一个都在现行当中，你还在增长，你对治什么！就是你破掉了现行了，眼前虽然破掉了，可是它无始以来，这个习气的力量还在，那个时候你一定要把它拿掉它，所以那个时候才谈得到对治。