【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- Develop this spirit of enlightenment by making many forms of effort.

【If they ruin their spirit of enlightenment, they expel themselves from the company of Mahayana practitioners. 】

Whenever you retreat from this aspiration, you are expelling yourself from being a Mahayana practitioner.

【Therefore, those who wish to enter the Mahayana must develop this spirit of enlightenment by making many forms of effort.】

So for those of us who truly want to practice Mahayana, what should we do? We need to apply various methods, strive on them to generate the supreme spirit of enlightenment. This statement has great meaning; in case this spirit of enlightenment is like our wrong view of feeling: “Well! I have generated the supreme spirit of enlightenment and ready to save all living beings!” If with one thought like this count as aspiration, then this statement [of “by making many forms of effort”] is redundant, not needed. However, to truly generate the supreme spirit of enlightenment, it is not like our current way of thinking as just express it verbally. For the true content requires the understanding of many expedient means. The expedient means still require your tactful listening and studying. Mere understanding is not enough; one is still required to strive accordingly. Once applied, the mind has to correspond to it and that is the true arising of the aspiration, by then it is genuinely developed.

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34A 08’43”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P42 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P134

日常师父法语📡34A 08’43”手抄稿第5册P42 L1

道次引导 : 以众多方便励力令发菩提心

【若退此心，亦从大乘还退出故。】

什么时候你退的话，你就退下来了。

【是故诸欲入大乘者，须以众多方便励力令发，】

所以我们真正想学大乘的人，要怎么办？要用很多方法，努力修学这个方法，发起这个大菩提心。这句话实是大有道理在这里，假定说这发菩提心，就像我们现在的这种错误的见解，觉得：“哎呀！我现在发大菩提心，要救一切人哪！”一个念这么一动就算发的话，这句话变成多余的、这句话变成多余的。但实际上呢，因为真正要想发那个大菩提心，不是像我们现在想像嘴巴上面说一下，真正的内涵哪，要了解很多的善巧方便。那个善巧方便，你还要善巧地听闻、研习，单单了解了，还不够，还要努力地照着它下去做；做了以后，那个心理的行相跟它相应了，那个时候才是真正地发，真正地发。