Work Hard!- Layman Pang Yun

  

日轮渐渐短，光阴一何促。

身如水上沫，命似当风烛。

常须慎四蛇，持心舍三毒。

相见论修道，更莫著淫欲。

淫欲暂时情，长劫入地狱。

纵令得出来，异形人不识。

或时成四足，或是总无足。

可惜好人身，变作丑头畜。

今日预报知，行行须努力。

-庞蕴居士

The day gets shorter by the second, time flies at every instant. The body is like a bubble on the water, life is like a candle in the wind.

Always be careful of the four snakes (4 elements) and relinquish your minds of the three poisons (greed, anger, delusion).

When you people meet, discuss practicing the Way. Most importantly, do not attach to lustful desires. Lustful desires are but temporary feelings but they cause you a long stay in hell. 

Even when you get out, your (bodily) form is already unrecognisable. You may be a four footed or no footed animal. It’s a pity that a good human body ends up as an ugly animal.

Today I’ll like to give all a heads-up, please work hard! 

-Layman Pang Yun 

Difficulty in practice-Zen Master Dae Bong

  

Why is it difficult to practice? We face a lot of pressure in this world to go fast, and we’ve become very complicated. We have to make our minds simple, present, and attentive. If we don’t make our minds simple, it’s very difficult to pay attention to what we’re doing. If you can wash the dishes, drive to work, do your job, and take care of your family with attentiveness, then everything is your gate. Everything is your way in, and every action can be saving ourselves and saving others.

-Zen Master Dae Bong
为什么这么难修行呢？我们在生活中面对许多压力，要我们把事请做得更快，而我们也变得很复杂。我们需要让我们的心变得简单，活在当下，持有正念。如果我们不让我们的心简单化，要时时留意我们正在做什么是不容易的。如果你可以以正念洗盘子，驾车去上班，做工，照顾你的家人，处处都是大道之门。所有一切都是入口，而所有的行为都可以是救度自己和他人。

-大峰禅师

Root of practice- Zen Master Dazhu Huihai

 問：從何而修？

大珠慧海禪師答：從根本修。

問：云何從根本修？

大珠慧海禪師答：心為根本。

 

Question: Where do we start our practice and cultivation?

Zen Master Dazhu Huihai answers: You start from the root.

Question: What is the root?

Zen Master Dazhu Huihai answers: The mind is the root.