【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】- Can easily achieve in attaining high status with this life

【Contemplate the great importance of leisure and opportunity in this way with respect to your final goals. Also reflect on how important they are in terms of your temporary goals. 】

Like the aforementioned, we must truly recognize and observe that this human life of leisure and opportunity has excellent and ultimate great benefits. The benefit is not only for the ultimate [goals], but for what’s temporary (that which is just in front of us) as well. To us, the temporary goals are also very important, very important. The ultimate is of course important, but why are the temporary goals important? Below.

【That is, consider how you can easily achieve with this life qualities such as generosity, ethical discipline, and patience, which are the causes of resources, perfect attendants, and the body of a being in high status [rebirth amongst humans or deities]. 】

What do you seek for as temporary goals? The temporary goals are for “attaining high status (in your next lives)!” The temporary attainments of high status mean your resources, perfect attendants and all kinds of other aspects being perfect for you. What do you need to perfect these aspects? You still need to cultivate these things! To cultivate these things you will need your human life of leisure and opportunity. We need to accurately contemplate this reasoning.

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31A 09’22” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P226 LL4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P123

日常师父法语📡31A 09’22”手抄稿第4册P226 LL4

暇满 : 以此身易能成办增上

【如其观待毕竟义大，如是观待现时亦然，】

像上面告诉我们的啊，就是我们好好地认识、观察，说这个暇满人身啊，有这样殊胜究竟的大利益；不但是究竟，而眼前也是，对我们眼前来说也是非常重要、非常重要。这究竟固然重要，眼前怎么重要呢？下面，

【谓增上生中，自身受用眷属圆满之因，布施持戒及忍辱等，若以此身易能成办，此诸道理亦应思惟。】

你眼前求些什么？眼前就叫[增上生]嘛！眼前增上生就是自己的受用、眷属，各式各样的圆满，这个圆满还是要什么？还是要修这些东西啊！要修这些东西，还是要拿我们的暇满的人身，这个道理应该正确地思惟啊！