【Reflecting on your Future Life】- Grasp the root key point, take the most direct path

【This passage shows clearly the progression of the contemplations for persons of small and medium capacities.】

Similarly, it is right here, on suffering which is the root cause, depending on the breadth and depth of one’s ability to analyze this [suffering], hence the topics of the small, medium, and great capacities are [determined and] explained. This is so for the [determination of the] content. The order of the stages of cultivation is determined as such as well. If one can only focus on the immediate, then one is a person of small capacity. If you can go deeper in perspective, you will be a person of medium capacity. Then for those who have the most ultimate and perfect understanding, they are persons of the great capacity, persons of the great capacity. Why does he bring this up here? On one hand, of course it explains that regardless of what segment you are in, the root cause is right here. At the same time, here it reminds us that if this is the case and we can grasp the root key point at the very beginning, then our very first step will be on the most direct and fastest path. It is also the most energy-saving and the most convenient path! The most energy-saving and the most convenient path!

SOURCE 来源 :

42B 01’29” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P52 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P174

日常师父法语📡42B 01’29”手抄稿第6册P52 L1

三恶趣苦 : 把握根本，走最直接的路

【即于此中，发生下中士夫意乐，次第极显。】

同样地，就在这个里边，从苦这个根本因上面，看你自己的力量能够观察的深广的程度，然后呢来说明下士、中士、上士，这个内涵是如此，修行的次第也是如此。只看见眼前的，那个是下士；你能够更深一层去看的这是中士；然后呢最彻底圆满地了解，这个是上士，这个是上士。他为什么这地方要这么提一下呢？固然一方面说明，不管是哪一部分，它的根本的原因在这里。同时这个地方也提醒我们，既然这是这样的话，那我们一开头的时候就把握住根本重点，一脚下去走最直接也是最快速的路子，同时这一条路是最省力、最方便哪！最省力、最方便哪！