【Reflecting on your Future Life】- Meditate on suffering is the common foundation for the 3 types of persons

This particularly explains that, ah! In this section where we are supposed to meditate on suffering, it tells us that even though the suffering described here belongs to the topics of small capacity, meaning that it is told to help us avoid falling into miserable realms, actually this topic continues onward into medium and great capacities. Entire Buddhism teaches none other than this. Therefore, even though we will explain medium and great capacities later, what is said now is also a foundation to them. Therefore, this is a common foundation. The reason we didn’t go into it in detail is because we are not ready to follow it to practice right now, but we are only at the point of understanding the principles. Therefore, I have explained the principles of it in detail. As for the formal (actual) content of it, when we are ready to actually meditate on them, that’s when we will turn back, and seriously study and discuss anew. Then based on our understanding, we will reflect and analyze in order to spur the realization of suffering. At that time, your mind will feel, “Ah!” As soon as you think of suffering, you will give rise to thoughts which concord with suffering.

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42B 04’12” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P53 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P174

日常师父法语📡42B 04’12” 手抄稿第6册P53 L4

三恶趣苦 : 修苦为三士道的共基

这个是特别说明，啊！修苦这个地方要告诉我们，它这个苦尽管只是下士，说避免我们死后堕落，实际上呢这个也一直通到中士、上士，整个佛法里边无不都是说这个。所以尽管以后讲到中士以及上士的时候，这个目前所讲的，也是它们的基础，所以这个是共基。而这个共基，我们所以现在不讲的原因，原因是因为我们现在不是照着去修的时候，而只是理解这个道理的时候，所以把这个道理我是详细地说明。关于正式的内涵，到正去修的时候，我们到那时候要回过头来，很认真地在这个上面去重新研阅，然后呢根据所了解的思惟观察，策发这个苦的认识。然后呢那个时候你的心里面，就会：哎呀！一想到苦哇，这跟苦相应的这个心念生起来了。