【Reflecting on your Future Life】- The reason it asks us to contemplate the suffering of the miserable realms first

On the contrary, though you strive and experience a little hardship now, at the time of death, there is not much to this hardship anymore, but the happiness that it will bring about later will be great. Isn’t that a very good thing? Therefore at this particular place, this is the real reason it asks us to contemplate the suffering of the miserable realms first. Therefore, let us take a look first, after this life is done, the place we will go next–look at the places of suffering.

【As the protector Nagarjuna says:
Reflect daily on the hells,
Both those extremely hot and cold.
Reflect also on the hungry ghosts
Emaciated by hunger and thirst.
Observe and reflect on the animals
Overcome by the suffering of stupidity.
Eliminate the causes of these and create the causes of happiness.
A human body in this world is difficult to obtain.
Once you have it, diligently stop
The causes of miserable rebirths】

It tells us the thing that we should really do; what should we really do? This is what we should do. We just talked about that we may also go to a good place. This is much like the previous section of mindfulness of death, whether we will die today or not, it’s uncertain. But for our own benefit, we absolutely cannot think that we won’t die. Contrarily, we have to think that we will die today. Similarly, with these two places of suffering and happiness, it’s uncertain where we will go in the future, but we must certainly think about the place of suffering. Why? Because as soon as you think you will die today, you engage in practice immediately. Then when you think that you will certainly go to a place of suffering in the future, you will strive to practice even more desperately. As a result of practice, you will go to a place of happiness.

SOURCE 来源 :

41A 08’53” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P7 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P161

日常师父法语📡41A 08’53”手抄稿第6册P7 LL2

三恶趣苦 : 先思维恶趣苦的理由

反过来，你眼前虽然努力，苦一点，等到你临终的时候，苦的也没什么，但是后面那个快乐却是好的，这不是很好的事情吗？所以这一个地方，是为什么先要我们思惟这个恶趣的真正道理。所以说我们先看看，这一生完了以后，下一生该去—看苦的地方。

【如龙猛依怙云：“日日恒应念，极寒热地狱，亦应念饥渴，憔悴诸饿鬼，应观念极多，愚苦诸旁生，断彼因行善。赡部洲人身，难得今得时，励断恶趣因。”】

说我们真正应该做的事情，应该做些什么呀？那这个才是我们要做的。刚才说我们也可能去好的地方—就像前面念死，说今天死、不死，不一定，但是为了我们的好处起见哪，绝对不能想不死，反过来要想着必定死；那同样的，将来我们去苦跟乐两个地方是不一定，但是我们一定要想苦的。为什么？因为你想到今天必定死，是马上修；然后你想到将来一定要去苦的地方，你更会努力拼命修，结果修了以后到快乐的地方。