【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】-  Enter the circle of Mahayana

“Ignoring the spirit of enlightenment and practicing all sorts of kind deeds is considered a demonic act.” This is not to say that you don’t have the aspiration; even after generating it and then you forget the aspiration while engaging in deeds, this is considered a misdeed. This is the primary concept that we have to recognize first. Followed by concepts that are listed base on this fundamental objective to allow us to establish such firm recognition as well as revealing to us the expedient approaches for stepwise practice.

【Once this is produced in your mind-stream, it is as Santideva states in his Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds: At the instant destitute beings

Bound in the prison of existence give rise to this spirit.

They are called “sugatas’ children”...

Thus, these beings enter the Mahayana upon being named “conqueror’s children” or “bodhisattvas.” 】

As long as this supreme spirit of enlightenment arises in our mental stream, that is when we are count as Bodhisattvas. These Bodhisattvas are considered the Conqueror’s children. So generally when the sutras mention Conqueror’s children, they usually mean the Conqueror’s children who have generated the supreme spirit of enlightenment, or they are called Bodhisattvas. That is when we have truly entered the circle of Mahayana.

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34A 05’12”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P40 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P133 - P134

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道次引导 : 入大乘之数

“忘失菩提心，修诸善法，是名魔业。”不要说你没发，你发了，忘掉了以后去修，尚且是错的，这个第一个概念。这个重要的概念我们先要认识，后面所有的讲的那些道理，就是把这个，现在那个基本的列出来的宗旨，让我们产生确定不移的认识，以及告诉我们如何步步地修持的方便。

【若于相续中生起此心，如《入行论》云：“若发大心刹那顷，系生死狱诸苦恼，应说是诸善逝子。”谓即获得佛子之名，或菩萨名，其身即入大乘之数。】

只要我们身心当中，什么时候生起这个大菩提心，那个时候我们就算是菩萨，这个菩萨才真的佛子。所以佛经上面通常说佛子的话，通常指的是发大菩提心的佛子，或者叫菩萨名，那个时候我们真正入大乘之数。