【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- To be like the steps of a staircase

【Also, Aryadeva’s Lamp Which Is a Compendium of Deeds describes how you first train in the thought of the perfection vehicle and then enter the mantra vehicle. 】

Thus this Bodhisattva Aryadeva – also from the Profound View lineage – is a remarkable Bodhisattva. In this commentary, he also talked about the stages – first establish this so-called foundation that is shared by Mahayana, and then leading to the highest level of the unshared mantra vehicle.

【It establishes that you must do so in stages. It then summarizes this point as follows:
The method by which beings who are beginners
Engage in the ultimate purpose
Was said by the perfect Buddha
To be like the steps of a staircase. 】

In short, all beginners – that is, those practitioners who have just started in this meditation/cultivation practice – need to advance gradually to reach the unsurpassed, ultimate level. What did this “perfect Buddha” tell us to do? He has a specific method; the method is like a staircase for advancing one step at a time.

SOURCE 来源 :

36B 22’41” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P130 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P140

日常师父法语📡36B 22’41” 手抄稿第5册P130 LL6

道次引导 : 方便如梯级

【圣天亦于《摄行炬论》，成立先须修习到彼岸乘意乐，次趣密咒渐次道理。】

那么这圣天菩萨，也就是性宗的，是一位了不起的大菩萨。他在这个里边，论当中也说，说这个次第—先成立这个所谓根本的共大乘的基础，其次引导最上面的不共的密咒。

【《摄此义》云：“诸初业有情，转趣于胜义，正等觉说此，方便如梯级。”】

总之一切的初发业的，就是初初修习的有情啊，那么要慢慢地增上了达到无上的胜义。那这个“正等觉”，就是佛，告诉我们怎么办呢？这个有他一定的方法，这个方法就像楼梯这样地一步、一步向上爬。