【修心 Cultivation of our mind】认识整体大纲的重要性 The importance of understanding the main outline

修心 : 认识整体大纲的重要性

就是假定你说一开头你不认识这个大纲，你随便碰到一个跑进去的话，这个时候吃了一个大亏。就究竟的意义来说，你只要碰到，一定得到，但是走的路却是远路，不晓得多远啊！不晓得吃多少冤枉苦头！所以你一开头先晓得这个大纲，照着这个次第走上去的话，那不晓得占多少便宜，这是唯一的正确的直路！而且是最好的、最圆满的，这个彼此之间，有这样的一个重要的关键在。

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日常师父法语📡66B 01'30" ~ 02'10" 手抄稿第9册P53 LL2

66B 01'30" ~ 02'10" Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P53 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P151

Cultivation of our mind – The importance of understanding the main outline

That is if you do not recognize the main outline, you just go about and enter through any point you come upon, that is when you will be greatly disadvantaged. In regards to reaching the final goal, through any contact point [with Buddhism], you will certainly be able to get there. However, you would have gone through a long path, you have no idea how much longer it will be! You have no idea how many unjust miseries you will have to endure! Therefore, if you first understand the main outline, and advance according to the stages, you have no idea how advantageous it is for you. This is the only proper direct path! And it is the best, the most complete. [Hence] among these points, there is this crucial key point.