【The Twelve Factors of Dependent-Arising 希求解脱】When what is projected…has been actualized, that is designated as being born, aging, and dying. 所引生起后即有生老死

【The Twelve Factors of Dependent-Arising】- When what is projected [name-and-form, the six sources, contact, and feeling] has been actualized, that is designated as being born, aging, and dying.】

This is much like what we have just said.  In a building, let's say our classroom here.  When I
am talking about the classroom, even though I do not specifically say that there is a black board, a podium, and your desks, but these are certainly included.  Otherwise, this would not be a classroom.  I just wanted to specifically talk about this.  And then it says,  

When what is projected [name-and-form, the six sources, contact, and feeling] has been actualized, it is that very thing, the projected, that is designated as being born, aging, and dying.

This says, even though it is projected from the first cycle, once they are actualized, the name-and-form, the six sources, contact and feeling will eventually die.  What is death?  It is the mere death of these things, nothing else.  For instance, for this classroom, when this classroom burns down, when the classroom burns down, may I ask, will the black board, the desks and chairs remain?  Of course they are burned down as well.  Nothing will be left!  It is exactly that.  So why does he present two cycles of causality?

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78B 26’25” Vol 10 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P210 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P319

日常师父法语📡78B 26’25” 手抄稿第10册P210 L8

希求解脱 : 所引生起后即有生老死

就像刚才我们说,一个房子,我们的教室,当你说教室的时候,虽然我并没有说这个教室里还有黑板,还有讲台,还有大家的课桌,一定包括在里头,否则的话,这个不能算一个教室。这个我们特别说一下,然后呢说:


所引已生,即于此立生老死故。

说,虽然是第一重因果所引,引生的,生起了以后,这个名色、六处、触、受,这些东西到后来,喏,就所以死,死什么?也就是这些东西死,并没有别的。譬如说我们说那个教室,说这个教室整个烧光了,当教室烧光的时候,请问这个里边的黑板、桌椅难道还在吗?当然也烧得光溜溜,一样东西都没有啊!就是这样。那么他为什么要说两重因果呢?

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