【Reflecting on your Future Life】- Suffering is the root cause to exhort us to practice III

Therefore, why do the four noble truths encompass all of Buddha’s Teachings? Here is the reason for it. This is what we need to have a grasp of. Thus for this concept, I wanted to specifically point this out. So when we do anything, we need to have a grasp of where the root is and thus the root cause. After that, [find] the complete causes. If you can grasp these two points, and have readied all the causes, then the resulting fruit will certainly be perfect. Thus, he explains this principle below.

【Since it was praised for this even when the Teacher was alive, he had nothing superior to teach as a personal instruction for liberation. 】

With respect to this principle, even if Buddha appears again [in this world], even if Buddha appears again, he will teach the same principle, nothing is superior to it. Therefore, suffering itself is the primary cause for learning Buddhism, which is also the root cause. What varies is the quality and measurement of suffering which range from shallow to deep. It only varies in that. Then after that, you take this and begin to consider others in your own place, thus marking yet another difference.

SOURCE 来源 :

42B 00’10” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P51 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P174

日常师父法语📡42B 00’10” 手抄稿第6册P51 L1

三恶趣苦 : 苦为策动修行的根本因 III

所以佛整个的说法为什么四谛包含了一切，原因在这里，这个是我们应该把握得住的。所以这个概念，这个地方特别指出这一点来。所以我们做任何事情，一定要把握住根本何在，所谓根本因；然后呢圆满因，你这两点把握得住的话，这因圆满了，这果自然必定圆满。所以这个道理他下面说：

【纵有大师现住世间，于此教授，更无过上而可宣说，】

关于这个道理就算佛再来，佛再来，能够说的也是这个道理，更没有超过它的。所以这个苦本身就是修学佛法最主要的主因，也是根本因。不同的，就是把这个苦的质跟量，从浅到深，这个不同而已，然后呢推己及人，这样差别。