【Further Meditation on Suffering 希求解脱】beginningless latent propensity: persist to conceive this 无始习气：执持

【Further Meditation on Suffering】- beginningless latent propensity: persist to conceive this

【Though you have occasional moments when painful feeling is absent, 】

As long as you have not applied the remedy to ultimately alleviate the problem, that's when you "persist to conceive this." "Persist to conceive" is a beginningless latent propensity in our minds. Without us being aware, we keep at it. Hence, it is called conceiving the true sign of the self of persons and conceiving the true sign of the self of phenomena. This is what we would say normally. But what is conceiving the sign of the self? You don't know. What is conceiving the sign of phenomena? You don't know. In such a state, just knowing these two terms is not sufficient to help us alleviate the real problem. But we are under the threat of suffering right now. Hence, based on these two terms, you must go and find the meaning behind these two terms. Once you found the meaning behind these two terms, that's when you can get rid of that. Hence, "persist to conceive this" would mean: Ah! The actual meaning presented by these two terms is such that as long as one persists to conceive these things, one will certainly suffer. So then why is that?

SOURCE 来源 :

72A 02’11” Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P254 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P291

日常师父法语📡72A 02’11”手抄稿第9册P254 L4

希求解脱 : 无始习气：执持

【乃至执持尔时受苦。】

只要你没有对治把它彻底地解决，那个时候就是“执持”。这个执持是心里面无始以来的习气，不知不觉当中一直在这个上头，所以叫我执、法执。平常我们都这么说，可是我执是什么？不知道。法执是什么？不知道。那这种状态当中，你认得两个名字，对于我们解决这个真实问题，眼前并没有用场，而这个苦恼却是眼前逼在这个地方。所以你必定要从这两个名词上面，找到名词所指的内涵何在，找到了这个内涵，那个时候你才可以把它拿掉。所以说这个“执持”，那就是，喏！这两个名词所代表的实际的意义，只要它还在执著着，那时候一定受苦。那么，为什么呀？