【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】- Externally, you need an excellent teacher; Internally, you need a human life of leisure and opportunity

【The ability to practice, because you are endowed with the external condition, a teacher, and the internal conditions, leisure and opportunity; 】

Now since you have to cultivate, but what conditions do you need to cultivate? Externally, you would need the guidance of the excellent teacher. Internally, you would need a human life of leisure and opportunity. With this human life of leisure and opportunity, pay attention to this! A human life of “leisure and opportunity” does not just mean a human body. Just having a human body is not enough. So once you have this human body, you would still need to be without the eight conditions that lack leisure and fulfill the ten opportunities that we talked about yesterday. This kind of human life is very difficult to obtain , very difficult to obtain ! For those of us here today, I don’t dare say that you haven’t obtained it. But to my understanding, there aren’t many who have. But fortunately for us, we have obtained the approximation. As long as we put in diligent effort accordingly, you will soon concord. If we just stop short here, then sorry! We would still be running in circles outside the door. Therefore, in some places these two categories are divided into three parts. The first one says that externally, you need an excellent teacher . The second one is that you need to obtain this human body. Then the third one is that you need the sublime teaching . Actually, the sublime teaching is included in the leisure and opportunity. Once all these are met , that will do .

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32A 07’35” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P261 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P127

日常师父法语📡32A 07’35”手抄稿第4册P261 L4

暇满 : 外缘知识，内缘暇满

第二：【能修行者，谓外缘知识，内缘暇满，悉具足故。】

现在既然必须要修行，但是要修行必须要什么条件？外面要善知识的引导，里边要得到这个暇满的人身。这个暇满的人身，注意啊！[暇满的]人身，不单单是人身，单单人身不够。所以得到了这个人身，还要像昨天所说的要离八无暇，要得十圆满，这个人身就很难得，很难得喔！我们今天在座的诸位，我不敢说你们还没有得到，但是我所了解的得到的人是寥寥无几。现在我们幸运的，它的随顺已经得到了，只要照着去努力的话，那很快就会相应。如果我们停在这里的话，对不起！还在门外空转。 所以有的地方它这两项分三部分：说第一个要外面有知识，第二个呢，要得到这个人身，还要第三个，正法宝。实际上现在那个正法宝包含在那个暇满里边，这个具足了，那么才行。