【Reflecting on your Future Life】- disenchanted with cyclic existence, you aspire for liberation

【Once you have assessed your own condition, you develop compassion for others. After you have turned away from cyclic existence, you develop an aspiration for liberation. Frightened by suffering, you fervently go for refuge in the three jewels.】

Here it goes another step further! Since you feel the pains and sufferings of cyclic existence and wish for happiness for yourself. And then, you begin to extend your feelings to others, “once you have assessed your own condition,” you begin to consider others, that’s when you are able to give rise to compassion. Through compassion you develop the great spirit of enlightenment. This is the further step where disenchantment can incite the spirit of enlightenment, thus making you advance in the levels one after the other. Therefore in conclusion, “After you have turned away from cyclic existence, you develop an aspiration for liberation. Frightened by suffering, you fervently go for refuge to the Three Jewels.” Then when you formally begin to practice, why do you wish to practice? It is because you understand the pains and sufferings of cyclic existence, and thus generate disenchantment. You become disenchanted with cyclic existence and aspire for liberation. To be liberated, how can you be liberated? Ah! Thus understanding you need to find the method for liberation, which is finding the Three Jewels as our refuge. You then have found a point of entry for your cultivation. All these things come from what? They began with [knowing] suffering.

SOURCE 来源 :

41A 19’50” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P12 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P162

日常师父法语📡41A 19’50” 手抄稿第6册P12 LL3

三恶趣苦 : 由厌生死希求解脱

【由量自心而悲愍他。由厌生死希求解脱，由畏众苦，发起猛利真皈依等，】

那么更进一步，因为呀你自己感受到生死轮回的痛苦，自己要求快乐。然后呢，推己及人，“由量自心”推己及人，那个时候才生起悲愍。由于悲愍生起大菩提心，这是进一步，就能够由厌离而策发大菩提心，这样的层次一步一步上来。所以总结起来说：“由厌生死希求解脱，由畏众苦，发起猛利真皈依等。”然后呢，正式修行的时候，为什么要修行啊？因为你了解这个生死的痛苦，所以发起厌离，厌离这个生死，要求得到解脱。要求得到解脱，怎么才能解脱的话呢，啊！所以了解到找这个解脱的办法，于是找到了三宝是我们皈依处，真正修行下手的地方又找到了。凡是这一种都是从哪里开始啊？从苦开始。