【Reflecting on your Future Life】- without suffering there is no determination to be free

What this says is the main principles, the key points are all within knowing the suffering, understanding the suffering and meditating on suffering. Next, the text cites from the commentary.

【Similarly, Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds says:
Since without suffering there is no determination to be free, your mind, stay fixed! 】

You should know that without suffering, there will be no determination to be free. Because you have suffering, thus making you want to escape from suffering. That’s when you will develop disenchantment. Therefore, you should stay fixed on suffering. Actually, true cultivation is not a happy thing, it’s a hardship. True cultivation is done for the purpose of obtaining happiness. If you are greedy for [temporal] happiness, the result is you will end up obtaining suffering. Therefore, what’s really important, it never separates from suffering and happiness, these two things. This is what we need to understand. This is something we should understand. The reason we normally can’t engage in practice is also because of suffering and happiness, these two things. The reason we engage in practice is also for suffering and happiness, these two things. The key point is not to just talk about suffering and happiness. The key point is whether we understand the real truth of suffering and happiness, and whether we understand how to obtain happiness and eliminate the cause of suffering. This is what’s really important for us.

SOURCE 来源 :

41A 21’45” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P13 LL5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P161

日常师父法语📡41A 21’45”手抄稿第6册P13 LL5

三恶趣苦 : 无苦无出离

修行的大要，主要的都在这个知苦、了解苦、念苦当中。下面就引这个论。

【如是亦如《入行论》云：“无苦无出离，故心汝坚忍。”】

要晓得没有苦就没出离，因为你有苦，所以呀想跳出苦，那个时候你才会策发这个厌离心，所以你对这个苦啊应该坚忍。所以真正修行不是件快乐的事情，是件苦事情，真正的修行是为求快乐才去修行的。所以你贪快乐，结果的话，得到的苦。所以真正重要的不离开苦、乐两个字，这是我们应该了解的。平常我们所以不能修行，也是为了苦、乐两个字，修行也是为了苦、乐两个字。关键不在说苦、乐，关键在懂不懂苦乐的真相，了解不了解得到快乐、去掉痛苦的原因，这个才是我们真正重要的。