【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- What is the foundation?

The content of this conventional spirit of enlightenment is discussed at the beginning of the great capacity [v.2]. In the beginning, the Lamrim text tells us the requirement for this recognition, by then we will have a standard of measurement. Otherwise, if we lack proper recognition, we will mistakenly consider a tiny aspiration to be as though I have the supreme spirit of enlightenment, I am a Bodhisattva, and I am qualified to practice great teachings, very sorry! The efficacy would be missing and such effort turns out to be useless! So in the Biography of Venerable Atisha, there are several stories. Some practitioners in the stories claimed to have attained the stage of generation and the stage of completion – they thought they have cultivated the stage of generation. Very sorry, this is not in accordance, not at all! There is even the possibility that they might be descended, why? You don’t even have the “foundation!” So at present, many of us who are studying the tantric practice think, “Ah, Tantra is the best.” Thus they also want to apply the “four performances,” after engaging in it for a while – needless to talk about the four performances, even if you have practiced 400 performances without the spirit of enlightenment, you are still spinning idly and going nowhere! So I have always mentioned all along: you have to understand, what is the content of the teaching? It is not for you to chant this rite accordingly once, reciting it once is not enough, this we have to understand.

SOURCE 来源 :

34A 07’19”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P41 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P134

日常师父法语📡34A 07’19”手抄稿第5册P41 L4

道次引导 : 根本是什么？

这个世俗菩提心的内涵，本论讲到共上士的时候，一开头的时候告诉我们，一开始告诉我们，我们必定要认识这一个，那个时候才有一个衡量的标准。否则的话，没有正确认识，我们误解，总以为发了一点心啊，觉得我是一个发大菩提心，然后我就是菩萨，我就可以修这些大法，对不起！没有用、没有用。 所以这个《阿底峡尊者传》上面就有这么几个公案，说有的人修生起次第、圆满次第，已经能够把生起次第修起来了，对不起，不相应、不相应！乃至于你还要堕落，因为什么？你的“根本”根本没有！所以现在由于我们现在很多学密的这个同修们：哎呀，密教最好的。然后呢他也要修“四加行”什么，弄了半天，不要说四加行，你修个四百个加行，如果你菩提心没有的话，那个还在空转、还在空转！所以我前面一路上面，常常提出来，你必定要了解，它要你这个内涵是什么？不是你念这个仪轨，照这个仪轨念一遍，这个不够的，这我们务必要了解。