【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- supreme spirit of enlightenment

What does great love and compassion mean? It is not only to help myself but also to help all others – rescue them from the abyss of the sea of suffering, right? This everyone can understand. If you don’t even recognize the affliction in the sea of suffering, and you claim to rescue them from it, how will this work? May I ask, where does this help come from? Isn’t it absurd? You tell them not to grasp, their reply is: “So for me not to cling onto it and give it to you, for you to enjoy it?” That is the fault we have now. At least you are aware of the cyclic existence is not worthwhile, and you are in the midst of it, truly filled with unbearable suffering! You deeply understand this suffering and renounce it, yet you are unable to leave by yourself and need to help others. That is when we are qualified to say, “I will rescue you from cyclic existence.” Isn’t this very clear? So without the foundation of the shared small and medium capacity, one cannot possibly talk about the great capacity, is this clear? You must be able to feel this cyclic existence, and recognize that it is filled with extreme suffering. That is when you cannot bear that there are those immersed in it. This is considered great love and compassion. 

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34B 05’46”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P56 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P134

日常师父法语📡34B 05’46”手抄稿第5册P56 L4

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