【The Six Types of Suffering 希求解脱】Can’t find the initial cause, and unable able to repay it 1 最初因找不到、还不尽 1
【The Six Types OF Suffering】- Can’t find the initial cause, and unable able to repay it 1
【You cannot see the initial cause
Of even a single effect;
Seeing how vast the causes of even
one effect are, Who would not be
frightened?】
It says that for any single effect, meaning any one of our lifetimes, this says that for us now - "I" exist. So then for this single effect, you want to find its causes, to find its causes, the "initial cause," what is the initial cause? You can't find it. You can't find it for any single effect! Ah! Hence there are limitless causes and conditions! You have to think about it, since everything depends on causes and conditions, in order to produce the right effect, you will have to begin from the causes. But for a very simple issue, you can't even find the initial cause. You can then imagine how complex this issue is. If it is that complicated, how horrible it is. Then you have found a more frightening reason. Do you understand? So, let’s just say, ah, we're just doing something really minor. It doesn't matter if you did it due to attachment or hostility. You might think that you are just taking a bite of the food. But for that mouthful of food, you can't find its initial cause. If you have to repay for that mouthful of food in the future, you will not be able to repay it even if you want to. That’s what it means. And then no matter what you do, the root cause is right here. It is because you cannot find the initial cause, and unable to repay it fully, therefore, you will forever go through rebirth in this place, you forever have to resolve these problems. The real problem is right here. So, anything that we do, we must instantly urge ourselves to be alert. Do you understand this?
SOURCE 来源 :
71A 20’38” Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P224 L11
English Lamrim Vol 1 P285
日常师父法语📡71A 20’38” 手抄稿第9册P224 L11
希求解脱 : 最初因找不到、还不尽 1
【“若时虽一果，初因非可见，见一亦增多，尔时何不畏。”】
说随便一个结果，就是我们随便一个一生，这个说我们现在—“我”存在了，那么你找它的这个一个结果，你找它的因，找它的因，“初因”，最初的原因哪里来？你找不到，随便这个一果都找不到哦！啊！所以这一个因缘无尽啊！你总得想这个上面，既然一切都是因缘，你要解决这个果，必定要从因上面；结果一个简单的事情，你找最初因找不到的话，可想而知这个事情是何等地复杂。既然这么复杂的，是何等地可怕。那这一下就找到更可怕的理由，懂不懂？所以我们现在随便说，唉呀，做一点小小的事情，不管你贪也好、瞋也好，你以为吃一口东西，那一口东西的吃下去的东西，找它的最初因找不到。如果你要将来把那一口东西吃下去要还的话，你要还尽是还不尽，意思就是这个说。然后呢不管你做任何一件事情，这个它根本的原因就在这个地方，因为你这个最初因找不到、还不尽，所以你永远在这个地方结生，永远要解决这个问题，它这个真正的困扰在这里。所以我们任何一件事情，当下就策励起我们大警惕来，这个懂不懂？