【The Origin of Suffering 希求解脱】You must first recognize the characteristics of afflictions 先认识烦恼体相

【The Origin of Suffering】- You must first recognize the characteristics of afflictions 

Therefore, the first thing I need to understand is how great is the harm from afflictions. Like that. 

After you understand the harm, you will then want to apply the remedies. But to apply remedies for it, what is it [that we are dealing with exactly]? You must recognize it. Hence you will further need to recognize their "characteristics." What are the characteristics of afflictions? For those who have practiced for a long time but did not achieve anything, what have you been practicing all this time? You don't know! So how will you train? Therefore, you must firmly remember this analogy: If you want to pull out weeds, you must first recognize what weeds are. If you don't recognize what weeds are, after being busy for a while, you pulled out the vegetables and the weeds are still growing here. The more you do, the worse it gets. That’s why many practitioners nowadays, cultivated for a while, the more they cultivate, the greater will be the "ego self." This is the problem. Many practitioners will have cultivated for a few decades, but ah, they are still as miserable as ever. The reason for that is right here. 

SOURCE 来源 :

73B 17’39” Vol 10 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P31 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P302

日常师父法语📡73B 17’39” 手抄稿第10册P31 L7

希求解脱 : 先认识烦恼体相

所以第一件事情说，我要了解了这个烦恼对我有多大的害处，这样。

那么你要了解了害处，然后呢你要对治它，但是什么—对治它，它是什么东西呢，你要认得它，所以进一步要认得它的“体相”，这个烦恼的体相是什么。我们现在所以讲修行而修不来的话，忙了半天你要修的什么啊？不知道！那你怎么修呢？所以常常记牢这个比喻：你要去拔草，你先要认得草欸，你不认得草，去忙了半天，把菜拔掉啦，草都长在这里啊！你不拔还好，越拔是越糟啊！所以现在的很多修行人，修了半天，这个越修啊，这个“我”越大，那就是这个毛病。很多人修行修了几十年了，哎呀，还是苦恼无比，这个原因就在这里。