【Reflecting on your Future Life】- There are so many benefits and all of them begin from the moment we obtain a human life of leisure and opportunity

“Ah! It’s really not easy to obtain this human life of leisure and opportunity. It’s not easy!” There are so many benefits and all of them begin from the moment we obtain a human life of leisure and opportunity. Once you have this human life of leisure and opportunity, that’s when you are able to cultivate. However, it rapidly moves toward death, impermanence. Ah! After death, where will one go? Where we go after death is not something which we have control of. It is entirely dependent upon karma. When we look at our karma, sorry, all the karma that we create are bad karma. After creating bad karma, we will go to the three miserable realms, an unspeakable suffering. Therefore if you do end up there in the future, there will be nothing that you can do then! Thus we must take advantage of the time while we haven’t gone there to strive quickly, practice in such a way that we can avoid the sufferings of falling [into miserable realms] and obtain happiness! Therefore, it tells us to go another step further to take a look here. Ah, this is true! There is no mistake in this, we must prepare for our future lives. Well then how can we obtain happiness in our future lives? The order of the stages is just so plain and clear. Therefore it tells us here, “Ah, now if you do this, you will obtain happiness in the future.” So number two.

【ii) Relying on the means for achieving happiness in the next life】

SOURCE 来源 :

42B 25’27” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P62 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P186

日常师父法语📡42B 25’27” 手抄稿第6册P62 LL2

三恶趣苦 : 所有的好处靠暇满人身开始

得到这个暇满的人身是真不容易啊，真不容易啊！有这么多的好处，所有的好处都是要靠得到暇满人身开始。然后呢有了这个暇满人身，修行才得到，但是呢，它又这么快迅速地死亡—无常，唉！死亡了以后到哪里去？死亡了以后到哪里去又不是我们自己做得了主的，完全看这个业。而我们看看我们的业的话，对不起，造的都是恶业，造了恶业到三恶道去，又这么苦不堪言，所以将来一旦到了那个地方，那是一点办法都没有啦！所以现在趁还没有去的时候，就赶快努力，怎么样地修行，使得我们免除堕落的痛苦，而得到快乐呀！所以进一步教我们看：啊，那对啊！没错，要忙后世的事情。那么怎么样才能够使我们后世得到快乐呢？这个次第那么清楚、那么明白。所以到这个地方就告诉我们：欸，现在呢你这样做啊，就可以使你将来得到快乐了，第二，

【第二习近后世安乐方便】