How to deal with The Lord of Death
【Explanation of the Confession to the 35 Buddhas Practice - Notice 3】How to deal with The Lord of Death
By Teacher Zhen-Ru, 15/12/2017
With reference to the book “Explanation of the Confession to the 35 Buddhas Practice”, page 287, from L1:
The Confession to the 35 Buddhas Practice looks like a short passage, yet it has been passed down from the Great Lineage Masters who had spent their lives… and now we have received the teaching from them. The Sangha members have also put in great effort to carefully do the translation word by word from the original Tibetan language. The process of the translation was tough and challenging because the Sangha members have to learn and master the Tibetan language first, before translating into Chinese. With the teaching from such a pure, complete and accurate lineage, when we practice accordingly to the teaching, are we not able to attain achievement? Definitely, we can! The reason is that the accomplished practitioners have followed this method; Je Rinpoche also followed it and attained emptiness and Buddhahood! A lot of people also prostrated with this method. Our lineage masters had also prostrated like that, and I am a practitioner following their footsteps, therefore, how should I prostrate to the 35 Buddhas, what kind of confidence should I develop in the Buddhas?
I very much look forward to everyone using your heart and mind to contemplate and realize what the “Confession to 35 Buddhas Practice” brings to our lives; put your heart in contemplating. After realizing it, observe whether or not you will have gratitude? Therefore, what will you achieve by reciting the Buddhas names? It is valiant bliss! Where does this come from? Definitely, this comes from our faith in the 35 Buddhas and blessings from the Buddhas!
For us, we are still in the darkness of cyclic existence, but we have met Lord Buddha who has the power to break through this darkness, he has the methods to overcome this darkness, and we have the ability to break through this darkness – that is our faith. If these combine as one, there is no reason that in this life we can’t succeed, right? Why should my past bad karma lead me to the miserable realms? Why can’t I have a triple jump, jump out from these 3 worlds once and for all? Why? Hence, all of us here have this ability to become Buddha. If you have this kind of faith, and you are unwilling to be an ordinary person, why can’t we use all sorts of dharma methods to practice, to terminate this cyclic existence completely, and say “goodbye!” to birth and death? I will not meet ”you” again! When I do meet “you” again, it is what? I will get more people to fight the Lord of Death.
【三十五佛忏讲记—预告 3】对治死主
参考书本位置：《吾愿无悔：三十五佛忏讲记》第 287 页第 1 行起
看起来小小一篇《三十五佛忏》，也是祖师大德用生命……现在我们传到了。法师们也是花了血本学藏文把它译出来，一个字、一个字用心血凝聚出来的，这样传递到我们这里。如此清净、完整、明确的这种教授传承，依照它修行能不能得到成就？一定能！因为成就者就是照这个，杰仁波切就是这样拜的，证空性、示现成佛了！很多人都是这样拜的。那么那些祖师是这样拜的，我就是跟着祖师后面的修行者，我要怎么去拜三十五佛，对他生起什么样的一个信心？
所以非常非常期待大家用自己的心，去领悟《三十五佛忏》到底给我们生命带来了什么，你用心去深深地领悟一下。领悟了之后，看看你会不会有感恩心？所以称诵佛名带来的是什么？是勇悍的喜悦。这种勇悍的心力来自于哪里？肯定来自于我们大家对三十五佛的信，以及佛陀的加持。
对于我们来说，轮回是黑暗的，但是我们遇到了能破除黑暗的佛陀、有破除黑暗的方法，还有我们破除黑暗的能力——就是我们的信。如果这几者合而为一，那么为什么此生不成就？为什么我要被往昔的恶业押到恶趣去？我为什么不来个彻底的三级跳，跳出三界？为什么？所以，在座的每一位都是有成佛作祖的能力，有这样一个信心的话，只要不甘心作凡夫，为什么我们不能透过种种修行的法门，从此对这个轮回一了百了，对生死说「再见」 ！不再见了，我再见你的是什么？我会让更多人来对治死主。