【 Reflecting on your Future Life 三恶趣苦】 If you contemplate how you have fallen into the ocean of suffering, you will then turn away from it, and thereby overcome ... 若自思堕苦海理，意生厌离，能息傲慢
【Reflecting on your Future Life】- If you contemplate how you have fallen into the ocean of suffering, you will then turn away from it, and thereby overcome your pride and arrogance.
【It is extremely important to meditate in general on the sufferings of cyclic existence and, in particular, on the sufferings of the miserable realms, 】
Regarding this point then, thus when we practice, we will certainly need to use the principle of suffering to exhort ourselves. For the principle of suffering, it is divided into two parts. One is that [in general] the sufferings of the entire cyclic existence, it is devoid of any merit. What in particular? The sufferings of the miserable realms. This is the most important, most important. It is also the main principle in the learning of Buddhism. Therefore, when Buddha was reborn, he first told us the truth of sufferings and then the causes of sufferings.
【for if you contemplate how you have fallen into the ocean of suffering, you will then turn away from it, and thereby overcome your pride and arrogance. 】
First, if you can contemplate in accordance with the teaching on falling into miserable realms in the future, and that you are within cyclic existence now, yet there is not a single good thing in this cyclic existence. Though we have obtained the human body, yet particularly with this, falling into the three miserable realms in the future, it is extremely terrifying! As we think of this, ah! We will develop a great disenchantment for everything. Once you have developed this disenchantment, all kinds of problems that you face now will be solved! The reason we cannot solve these problem is due to the notion of “self.” As soon as there is the “self,” all problems ensue — pride and arrogance. We will always see ourselves as being high up, will always look down on others, always give rise to attachment,h always give rise to hostility, and always give rise to ignorance. All of these will be removed!
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41A 15’42” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P10 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P162
日常师父法语📡41A 15’42” 手抄稿第6册P10 LL2
三恶趣苦 : 若自思堕苦海理，意生厌离，能息傲慢
【此中所修生死总苦，恶趣别苦，至极切要。】
关于这一点当中，所以修行的时候，必定要拿这个苦这个道理来策励我们。关于苦的道理分两部分：一个呢，整个生死轮回之苦是一无是处；而特别什么？恶趣之苦。这个是最重要、最重要，也是修学佛法的宗要。所以佛出世的时候，第一个说苦，然后呢讲苦因。
【谓若自思堕苦海理，意生厌离，能息傲慢。】
第一个，假定你能够如理地思惟将来要堕落，眼前已经在生死轮回当中，这一个生死轮回当中是一无可取。而虽然得到人身了，尤其是将来堕落三恶道，真是恐怖万端！一想到这里，啊！对所有的一切会产生大厌离。你一旦厌离了以后，嘿，眼前这种问题都解决了！我们眼前所以不能解决的，都是个“我”，一有这个“我”，这问题都来了—傲慢，把我总是看得高高的，总是瞧不起别人的，总是生贪、总是生嗔、总是生痴，所有的这些统统拿掉了！所有的情面，什么放不下的事情，统统去掉了！