【The Origin of Suffering】- General definition of an affliction part 2

Hence you will have to learn an opposite state of being serene before the state of being disturbed can be revealed. And that's when you will come to realize the characteristic of compositional activities. This is a point that I want to make a special explanation here. On the contrary, once you have that kind of experience, it will be easy for you to feel, "Oh, afflictions are arising!" When this arises at any given moment in your mind, you will recognize it. Normally for us ordinary beings, when we first begin to think about what afflictions are, we think that afflictions only happen when one is angry. No, no. It is that at any state that you are in now, you are amidst afflictions. But this type of affliction is more subtle, or you may be in a state of ignorance. This is what we must understand. This is the general definition of it.

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73A 05’33” Vol 10 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P6 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P298

日常师父法语📡73A 05’33”手抄稿第10册P6 L7

希求解脱 : 烦恼总相 2

所以你一定要相对地去学一个宁静的状态，那个时候你就显得出来不寂静的状态，那个时候你也才了解所谓行的自相，这一点在这个地方特别说明一下。反过来，你有了这个经验，就很容易感受到：哦，这个烦恼生起来了！就在任何那个时候心里面生起来，你就认得它。通常我们的凡夫刚才开始觉得什么叫烦恼，好像等到你发了脾气了这个才叫烦恼，不是的，不是的。就是你眼前在任何状态都是，这是都在烦恼当中，不过这种烦恼比较细，或在痴性当中，这个是我们必定应该了解的，这个是它的总体整相。