【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】- 5 aspects of opportunity – a Buddha has visited

【The five aspects of opportunity that pertain to others The five are: That a buddha has visited, that the sublime teaching is being taught, That the teaching remains, that there are those who follow it, That there is caring for others.】

So below explains.

【Among these, "that a buddha has visited," (or is appearing), means that a bodhisattva has accumulated the collections of merit and sublime wisdom for three countless eons, and has reached the heart of enlightenment; i.e., become a perfect buddha.】

This is “a buddha has visited.” We often would say, ah, Buddha has appeared, as if it is such a simple sentence to say that Buddha has appeared. Why does he (Master Tsong-Kha-Pa) tell us below, it has taken so long to accumulate the collections of merits and sublime wisdom, why is this said? It tells us this is rare and very precious! To have a Buddha appeared in this world, we have no idea how long it would take! And in this lengthy period of time, what had he done? He was not being lazy there, but that he had given his heads, eyes, brains and marrows during this lengthy time. Aye, today the temple asks you to do some volunteer work for the community, for two hours of your time, and you would feel, ah-ya, this is so tiring. Just like this. You would benefit from doing this volunteer work in the end, yet we don’t even wish to do it.

SOURCE 来源 :

30B 00’17” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P200 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P120

日常师父法语📡30B 00’17”手抄稿第4册P200 L6

暇满 : 五他圆满­——佛降世

【五他圆满者，如云：“佛降，说正法，教住，随教转，有他具悲愍。”】

那么这个下面是解释：

【言佛降世或出世者，谓经三大阿僧祗劫积集资粮，坐菩提座现正等觉。】

这个就是[佛降世]。我们常常说，啊，佛出世，好像很轻易地一句话就佛出世，为什么他下面告诉我们，经这么多集聚资粮，为什么要说这个话？告诉我们难能可贵啊！一个佛的出世，不晓得要经过多少时候啊！那个多少时候干什么嘛？不是在这懒懒散散—舍头目脑髓经过这么长的时候。哎哟，今天我们这里常住要你做点事情出坡，叫你做两个钟头，你还觉得：哎呀，累得要命，这样。结果出了坡这个好处还是你得的，我们都不愿意去做。