【The Six Types of Suffering 希求解脱】The fault of repeated rebirth (2) 数数结生过患 2
【The Six Types OF Suffering】- The fault of repeated rebirth (2)
【For example, O monks, if someone took from this vast earth pellets the size of juniper berries and set them aside, saying, "This is my mother, and this is my mother's mother," then, monks, the clay of this vast earth would be exhausted, yet the line of matrilineal predecessors would not.】
It is because in the scriptures, the explanation uses the text from the scriptures. Whenever a Bodhisattva composes,he would never make a statement without ground. There will certainly be references and it will be based on scriptures. And then his explanation will be governed by the meaning in the scriptures. So he referenced the scriptures and said: What is said earlier is not the correct meaning. So what does the scripture really say? It is referring to this, "O monks"- This is telling the Bhikshu, the Buddha told him that for instance, if someone used the clay of the earth to make pellets, like the size of juniper berries, then count them, "This is my mother,this is my mother's mother, my mother's mother's mother. Mymother's mother's mother's...like that. And then, go on like this to count the next pellets. You would count the next pellet as you go through each matrilineal predecessor. The pellets formed by the clay of the earth will be quickly exhausted. So then if you want to find the original matrilineal predecessor,you cannot. What does this mean? This would mean we are not looking for the mothers that we have had in every life, but where did the mother of my mother in this life come from? And this mother was born from another mother who was born from yet another mother.
SOURCE 来源 :
71A 18’10” Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P223 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P285
日常师父法语📡71A 18’10” 手抄稿第9册P223 L4
希求解脱 : 数数结生过患 2
【“诸苾刍，譬如有人，从此大地执取诸丸，量如柏子，作是数云：‘此是我母，此是我母之母。’而下其丸。诸苾刍，此大地泥速可穷尽，然诸人母展转非尔。”】
因为它那个经文上，在那释论上引经上的文—凡是菩萨造论，他都不是凭空的，一定是有凭有据根据经论，然后呢贯彻诸经义来解释这个道理。所以他引那个经论上面说：前面这个不是正理，那么经怎么说呢？就是就这一点事情来说，“诸苾刍”—就是告诉这比丘，佛告诉他譬如有人把那个大地那个土就做为丸，像柏树子那样，然后数：这是我的母亲，这是我母亲的母亲，母亲的母亲的母亲，母亲的母亲的母……这样。然后“下其丸”，每数一个下一粒，说这个大地所做成功的丸，很快就数完了，但是要找到那个辗转为母，找不到。这个什么意思？不是说我每生结生的这个母亲，就是说我现在生我是母亲，母亲哪来的？母亲还有母亲生，母亲还有母亲生……。