자성 안에서의 참회 91) The 6th Patriarch Sutra - 20240420

6대 조사가 가르친 자성 안에서 참회하라는 의미는 참회를 할 때 자성으로 돌아가서 이것은 자성에서 나오는 것이라고 말하라는 것입니다. 그렇게 하면 자연스럽게 진참회를 합니다. 우리는 단지 참회할 때 최선을 다해서 자성과 연결되려고 합니다. 

 

자성에서 시작합니다. 대비참을 할 때 나는 자성에서 이것을 할 것이다라고 말합니다. 자성으로 돌아가서 관을 하세요. 시작하기 전에 관을 하세요. 자성으로부터 시작합니다. 그것이 무엇인지 알 필요조차 없습니다. 1초 동안 그렇게 하면 복은 무한합니다. 그리고 나서 마음이 방황하고 있다는 것을 깨닫습니다. 돌아가서 다시 설정합니다. 다시 본성으로부터 시작합니다. 그리고 마음이 돌아다닙니다. 다시 시작하세요. 나의 본성으로부터 시작한다고 말하는 그 순간, 여러분의 복은 믿을 수 없습니다.

 

우리의 자성에서 시작하는 것과 우리의 단전에 집중하는 것의 차이는 무엇입니까? 당신의 단전은 당신의 본성으로 가는 관문입니다. 단전으로 돌아가는 것은 본성으로 돌아가는 것입니다. 그것을 느낄 수 있는지 없는지는 중요하지 않습니다.

 

When the Sixth Patriarch taught us about true repentance and reform within your self-nature, meaning that when you decide to do repentance reform, you go back to self-nature and say, that comes from your self-nature. If you do that, then you're naturally doing true repentance and reform. What we can do is just try our best to connect with self-nature in repentance.

 

You start with your self-nature. When you do the Great Compassion Repentance, you say ‘I'm going to do this from my self nature.’ You go back to your self nature and contemplate it. 

Before you start, you contemplate. I'm starting from my self-nature. You don't even need to know what it is. If you do that for one split second, your blessings are limitless. And then you realize that your mind is wandering. You go back and reset. Let's start from our self-nature again. And then you wonder. Start again. That very split moment where you say I'm starting from my self-nature, your blessings are incredible.

 

What's the difference between starting from our self-nature versus concentrating on our dantian? Your dantian is a gateway to your self-nature. Going back to your dantian is going back to your self-nature. Whether you can feel it or not doesn't matter.