【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- To attain wisdom of emptiness, cultivate serenity & insight

【The Elder’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment says that you should develop meditative serenity for the sake of producing the superknowledges. He is simply giving an example. In other contexts he says that you should develop serenity for the sake of producing insight. Therefore, achieve serenity mainly for the purpose of insight. 】

Of course you want to cultivate all sorts of virtues, learn meditative stabilization, as well as recognize the characteristics of Buddha Dharma, generate the aspiration for the spirit of enlightenment, and perfect it. This still relies on truly perceiving the wisdom of emptiness, which is the reference to the term “insight” here. So you need to further advance to learn insight. The explanation below: why is it explained in this way? Because this text is based on the Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, which talks about the stages step by step. In the end, it says that, in order to produce the superknowledge, meditative serenity is required. The actual purpose is not to attain the superknowledge, it is [to achieve meditative stabilization for the purpose of obtaining insight]. Hence, I make this clarification here.

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35A 05’57”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P74 LL5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P136

日常师父法语📡35A 05’57”手抄稿第5册P74 LL5

道次引导 : 为了通达空性应修止观

【《道炬论》说，为发通故，修奢摩他者，仅是一例，觉[口窝]于余处亦说为发毗钵舍那，故为生观亦应修止。】

固然你要修种种的善法，要学止；还有呢佛法的特质，发了菩提心，圆满菩提心，还非要真正地通达空性，通达空性就是这个地方所谓的“观”，所以进一步以这个来学观。下面这个解释是，为什么要这样解释呢？因为本论的依据是《菩提道炬论》，那么《菩提道炬论》讲到这个次第一步一步上来，它最后说，为了发通所以要毗钵舍那（编者按：疑师口误，应为“奢摩他”）；实际上它主要的目的，不是发通，主要的目的是在这个上面，所以这个地方说明一下。