【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】- Achieving happiness and alleviating suffering depend only on practicing the teachings

【the need to practice the teachings, because all living beings only want happiness and do not want suffering, and because achieving happiness and alleviating suffering depend only on practicing the teachings】

So the first thing we need to know is that we need to cultivate. Why? It says that without any exception, every being wishes for happiness and does not want suffering. This is absolutely true. But to truly achieve happiness and alleviate suffering, you can only rely on cultivation. If you do not understand this, do not understand this principle, then we would be wrong. Ah-ya! We would only seek after little advantages, would only wrongfully seek after present results. Once you truly understand it, then at that time, it won’t be that way. Ah, no! You would work at the cause, to plant a happy cause to eliminate this suffering fruit. Only then can you achieve happiness and alleviate suffering. Well then to do this, you can only rely on cultivation. You must have this concept. If you do not have this concept, who wishes to cultivate, it’s an arduous task! Once you have this concept, who doesn’t want to cultivate? Because it is happiness!

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32A 06’24” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P260 LL4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P126

日常师父法语📡32A 06’24”手抄稿第4册P260 LL4

暇满 : 引乐除苦唯依赖于正法

【其中须修行者，谓一切有情，皆唯爱乐而不爱苦，然引乐除苦亦唯依赖于正法故。】

第一个我们晓得一定要修行，为什么？说一切有情没有一个例外的，都是只想快乐，不想苦，这是千真万确的。但是你真正得到快乐去除痛苦，那只有靠修行。你不了解这个时候，不了解这个道理的时候，我们错的—哎呀！只是图一点便宜，只就现前的果上面去妄加希求。你真正了解了以后，那时候了解：啊，不！这个在因上面努力，要种这个乐因，要去掉这个苦的果，那个时候才能够得到快乐、去掉痛苦，那么这个事情只有修行。这个概念必须要有，你没有这个概念的时候谁愿意修行，那个苦事情啊！有了这个概念谁不愿意修行，因为它是快乐嘛！