【 Reflecting on your Future Life 三恶趣苦】There are five good qualities to suffering 苦有五德
【Reflecting on your Future Life】- There are five good qualities to suffering
【And also:
Furthermore, the good qualities of suffering are that you
Dispel arrogance with your disenchantment,
Develop compassion for the beings of cyclic existence,
Carefully avoid sin, and delight in virtue. 】
Normally we say “there are five good qualities to suffering.” Suffering has some particularly important benefits, namely the five good qualities. The first one is that it can help you develop “disenchantment” which is the foremost important thing in cultivation. Then, it can “dispel arrogance.” The first great obstacle to practice is arrogance. Though you want to develop disenchantment, but if the mind of arrogance persists, “the water of teaching cannot stay atop the great mountain of pride.” Through understanding suffering, one can eliminate that. This is from the point of view of benefiting the self. Furthermore, in benefitting others, it will also come from [knowing] the suffering for oneself and beginning to consider others in one’s own place. Therefore, you “develop compassion for the beings of cyclic existence.” I would commiserate those who are like me, drifting in cyclic existence. This is the third one. Therefore, due to this understanding, you will formally begin to eliminate sins, purify obscurations and would also create virtues, accumulate the collections [of merits and wisdom]. Thus, “carefully avoid sin, and delight in virtue.” All these benefits come from [knowing] suffering. Therefore, when Buddha appeared in this world, he said, “This is suffering! You should know.” Oh, you should understand this suffering and you must begin by knowing the sufferings.
SOURCE 来源 :
41A 23’22” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P14 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P162
日常师父法语📡41A 23’22”手抄稿第6册P14 L6
三恶趣苦 : 苦有五德
【又云：“复次苦功德，厌离除憍傲，悲愍生死者，羞恶乐善行。”】
平常我们说“苦有五德”，这苦有特别重要的好处，有五样功德。它第一个，能够策发“厌离”，这个是修行第一个重要。然后呢，“除憍慢”，这修行的第一个大障碍就是慢—憍慢。这个虽然你要厌离，如果这个慢心在啊，所谓“慢如高山，法水不入”。欸，他由于了解的苦，能够除掉它，这是就自利方面。更进一步还有利他呢，也从这个苦上面推己及人，所以“悲愍生死者”，悲愍同样跟我一样，沦流在生死当中的，第三个。于是由于这个认识，你正式地开始除恶行、净除罪障；积善行、集聚资粮，所以“羞恶乐行善”。种种的这些好处，都从这个苦。所以佛出世的时候说：此是苦啊！汝应知。噢，这个苦你应该了解，你必定要从知苦上面下手。