【Reflecting on your Future Life】- greedy for happiness

Therefore, the error itself is not happiness and the error stems from your ignorance. Because of your ignorance, you can’t see the truth and thus conceive suffering to be happiness. This is what’s really important to us. Therefore, at the beginning, he points out the truth of the mundane world—four errors. At the end, when you completely understand, eh, what does the Great Final Nirvana Sutra say? Permanent, happiness, self, and pure. Eh, it is marvelous! Regarding this principle, we just randomly talked about it. However, don’t try to find permanent, happiness, self, and pure with our ignorant concepts because no matter how you look for it, you would be wrong. No matter how you look for it, you would be wrong.

Therefore, what we should really understand is this here. The reason I point this out is that the reason we don’t want to learn now is what? We are greedy for happiness. Buddhism tells us truthfully that to enable you to really get something good for yourself, you need to do this. Here is where we should focus upon. Like that. Therefore, for those of us who have set a commitment, it’s very good. For the many who are still lazy, this is the place where you need to increase your understanding. Once you have this understanding, the real benefit is ultimately yours. At that time, with the problem of not cultivating, you will completely correct it and elevate yourself.

SOURCE 来源 :

42A 18’22” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P45 L9
English Lamrim Vol 1 P174

日常师父法语📡42A 18’22”手抄稿第6册P45 L9

三恶趣苦 : 贪快乐

所以颠倒本身不是快乐，颠倒本身是你的无明，因为你的无明看不见事实的真相，所以把苦的事情看成快乐的，这个是我们要真正重要的。所以在刚开始的时候，就世间真相指给你看—这个四颠倒；最后等到你彻底明白了以后，欸，在《涅槃》上面谈了什么？常、乐、我、净欸，妙了！这个道理这个地方随便一谈。不过我们不要以我们这种无明这种概念去找常、乐、我、净，你怎么找怎么错，怎么找怎么错。

所以眼前我们真正认识的在这个地方，我之所以点出来就是，我们眼前所以不肯学是为了什么？贪快乐。佛法真实告诉我们的，为了你真正得到你的好处起见，要这个样的，这个是我们应该着眼点，这样。所以我们有的人志趣很好，那是非常好，有很多人懒懒瘫瘫的话，这个地方就应该好好地加深认识。你有了这个认识以后，真正的好处毕竟还是你的。到那个时候你就会把我们现在的毛病，不能修行的整个地能够改得过来，能够提升自己。