怙主頂果欽哲仁波切：如何成為適合禪修的根器－在靈感中翻譯佛法，在業力下努力微笑

怙主頂果欽哲仁波切：如何成為適合禪修的根器

從無始至今，於我們生生世世的流續中，我們都在輪迴中徘徊而積累惡業。則當我們死後，除了惡趣，還能去哪裡呢？但是，若能有「我們必須帶領所有眾生證悟成佛」的願望和念頭，我們就生起了所謂的願菩提心。我們應該接着向上師和本尊祈請，讓殊勝菩提心的修持能於心中紮根。我們應該誦讀〈普賢行願品〉中的七支淨供，並且坐直，不受任何事物干擾地數息廿一次，而沒有混淆或遺漏。若能專注地數息到一串念珠結束，散亂的念頭將減少，世俗菩提心的修持也會容易得多。如此，將可成為適合禪修的根器。

~ 怙主頂果欽哲仁波切

Throughout the stream of our lives, from time without beginning until the present, we have all been wandering in samsara, accumulating evil. When we die, where else is there for us to go to but the lower realms? But if the wish and thought occur to us that we must bring all beings to the enlightened state of Buddhahood, we have generated what is known as Bodhichitta in intention. We should then pray to the teacher and the yidam deities that the practice of the precious Bodhichitta might take root in our hearts. We should recite the seven branch prayer from the Prayer of Perfect Action, and, sitting upright, count our breaths twenty-one times without getting mixed up or missing any, and without being distracted by anything. If we are able to count our breaths concentratedly for a whole mala, discursive thoughts will diminish and the practice of relative Bodhichitta will be much easier. This is how to become a suitable vessel for meditation.
-Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche