【The Eight Types of Suffering 希求解脱】 The suffering of old age 老苦

【The Eight Types of Suffering】- The suffering of old age

【(ii) The suffering of old age. There are five points to contemplate: 】

The first point,

【1) A handsome body deteriorates: your back bends down like a bow; your head is white like the dra-wa (spra-ba) grass flower; wrinkles cover your forehead like the lines of a cutting board. In ways such as these, youth breaks down and you become unattractive. 】

The first thing about old age, after you become old...when you normally stand up, you can stand very upright. But once you become old, you can’t keep your back straight. You will look like a bow. Ah! I am deeply aware of this for myself. I know I need to sit up straight [in a session], but after a little while, ah, I can't help to have a sore and aching back. Just like that. So then I have to exit the pose. But actually, actually, you have not reached old age yet. But many of us here have become frail even though they haven’t reached old age. That is really pitiful! You must quickly strive! In particular for the mind, for some people, that is even more critical, even more critical!

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69B 11’28” Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P161 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P275

日常师父法语📡69B 11’28” 手抄稿第9册P161 LL6

希求解脱 : 老苦

【思惟老苦分五。】

第一个，

【盛色衰退者，谓腰曲如弓，头白如艾，额如砧板，皱纹充满，由如是等，衰其容貌令成非爱。】

第一个老了，老了以后平常你站起来，站得很挺，到那个时候腰也站不起来了，像弓。唉！我现在已经深深感觉到了，晓得要坐得好好的，坐了一下，啊！这腰痠背痛那没办法，就这样，就下来了。其实，其实你们没有老，我们在这里很多人未老先衰啊已经，真可怜哪，赶快好好努力啊！尤其是心理上面，有一些人，这个是更重要啊，更重要啊！