【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- the teaching can imbue various types of people

【Those persons of least capacity may train in higher practices, but this will lead to their giving up their lower perspective without rising to a higher perspective, and thus they would be left with nothing. 】

On the other hand, there is a type of person who has weaker mental fortitude - with lesser mental strength. If they are requested to start practicing from the great capacity right from the start, “Alas! This will not work, sigh; I cannot do it!” Eventually, they are not able to practice great capacity, and even small capacity cannot be obtained! Well! This type of person ends up being excluded from the path. What is the reason that Buddha Dharma is excellently encompassing? Because the teaching can imbue various types of people. Today, you highly upholding this great capacity yet excluded other practitioners, therefore your practice is not thorough. So the author applies this stepwise method as guidance for the potential great capacity practitioner to advance step by step! By doing so, not only are there no faults, but it also allows those practitioners to properly advance based on the rational order. As for the small capacity practitioner, the guidance is also available. It has such great advantages!

SOURCE 来源 :

36B 02’57” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P120 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P139

日常师父法语📡36B 02’57”手抄稿第5册P120 LL2

道次引导 : 道次第能广摄各类人

【若是下品补特伽罗，虽令修上，既不能发上品意乐，又弃下品俱无成就。】

反过来，有一种人心力比较差，心力比较差，你教他一下子教他修那个上品的话，“唉呀！这个不行，唉呀，我这个不行啊！”结果呢，上品嘛他没办法修，下品嘛你又没有！好了！把这种人就摒弃在外头了。佛法，所以圆满精彩的，什么？它能够广摄各式各样的人。今天你把这个大法高高地提起来了以后，结果把那些人遗漏掉了，你就不圆满。所以它用这个方式次第引导，对于上品的人，正好让他步步上升哪！不但没有过失，而且让他走上去是如理如法地走得上，顺理成彰；对下品的人呢，也能够引导。它有这么大的好处啊！