【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- seeking immediate high-status

The person of small capacity is seeking immediate high-status. They are looking for happiness, whereas the actual laudable small capacity does not desire present enjoyment but invests in their future life. Why are they not attached to present enjoyment? The main reason is when you are attached to immediate enjoyment. You will only be deceived by this desire for material resources, and wouldn't see all the true benefits behind it. And, in the end, it causes you a great loss, or even you might not get the immediate high-status. So this is flawed. Thus, if you sincerely wish to attain this high-status – the so-called high-status is step by step improvement right now – in that case very sorry, you must not be attached to immediate enjoyment. Furthermore, because you are seeking future high-status, after advancing step by step you will discover whether you are cycling between human and deity rebirths. At a certain point, downfall is bound to happen. Well, this is not the ultimate solution! Thus, that will be the time that we are encouraged: since we are seeking true happiness, this is absolutely not thorough and we should think of a way to escape the cyclic existence. This is still based on you wanting to attain happiness, to remove suffering. So the concept here is very clear!

SOURCE 来源 :

34B 04’18”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P55 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P135 to P136

日常师父法语📡34B 04’18”手抄稿第5册P55 L7

道次引导 : 眼前增上生

下士就是要求眼前增上生的，要求快乐的；而真正的殊胜的下士，不贪现在而要求后世。他为什么不贪现在？他这个主要的原因就是觉得，当你一贪现在的话，你只为现在这个物欲所蒙蔽，后面的真正的好处你就看不见了。结果使得你得到大损失，乃至于眼前的增上生你都得不到，所以这是错误的。所以你真正要想得到这个增上，所谓增上呢，比眼前一步一步好啊，那对不起，你一定不能贪眼前的。那么更进一步的话，因为你要求以后的增上生，一步一步上去，发现你如果在人天当中转的话，增到某一个时候呀，一定跌下去，喔唷，这个不究竟！所以才那个时候会策发我们，既然你要求真正的快乐的话，这个是绝不究竟，你就想办法要跳出这个生死轮回了。还是为了你得到快乐，还是为了你去掉痛苦欸，所以它这个概念是非常清楚啊！