【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- These bodies are insubstantial, like bubbles

【Therefore, once you have developed the desire to take full advantage of the human life of leisure and opportunity as explained before, you must know how to take full advantage of it. With respect to that, Bhavaviveka’s Heart of the Middle Way states:

These bodies are insubstantial,
Like banana trees and bubbles.
Who would not give them a substance that is like Mount Meru
By making them conditions for helping others?

These bodies are a basis for sickness, old age, and death.
Those who have good character and compassion
Make them in each moment
A basis for promoting happiness in others.

This life of leisure is free of the eight conditions of nonleisure.
With the lamp of the sublime teaching
Make good use of this leisure
Through the deed of a person of great capacity. 】

Next is the explanation, I will read it as well and briefly go over it.

【Thus, enter the Mahayana with the thought, “Day and night I will conduct myself as a person of great capacity, making good use of the body of mine, which is a home of illness, a basis for the sufferings of old age and the like, and which lacks an essence like a banana tree or a water bubble.” 】

So for those of us who truly want to study and practice Buddha Dharma, who want to attain the essence of mind training, what is this aspiration for virtue? It is taught in the quote from the Heart of the Middle Way. In this quote, it explains that we should contemplate in this way: our body “lacks essence,” it is intangible and it is hollow. It changes very quickly and is as impermanent as a banana tree. What is a banana tree? In general, it looks like a tree, but if you open up the trunk, you will find that within the layers inside, it is empty. It appears to be solid on the outside, yet inside it is not.

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33B 27’22”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P32 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P132 -P133

日常师父法语📡33B 27’22”手抄稿第5册P32 L1

道次引导 : 如蕉沫之身

【是故若发如前所说取心要欲，取心要之法，如《中观心论》云：“谁不将无坚，如蕉沫之身，由行利他缘，修须弥坚实。上士具悲故，将刹那老死，病根本之身，为他安乐本。具正法炬时，断八无暇暇，应以上士行，令其有果利。”】

下面是解释，我一起念，一起简单地说一下。

【谓应念云，我身无实，如蕉如沫，众病巢穴，老等众苦所出生处，应以上士所有现行度诸昼夜，令其不空而趣大乘。】

所以说，我们真正要修学佛法的、要取的心要，这个善法欲是什么呢？就是这个，下面《中观心论》上面告诉我们的这一个。那么这个括弧里的这个论文，下面的解释就是这样，说我们应该这样地想：说我们现在身体“无实”，这是虚的、是空的，那么非常快速又无常地像芭蕉一样。芭蕉是什么？就是普通的芭蕉树，看起来一棵树，如果你拨开来的话，发现像那个一层一层拨到后来里面没有，空空如也，外面看起来好像有的，里面却是没有。