【The Attitude of A Person of Small Capacity 业果】Relying on the boat of the human body, free yourself from the great ocean of suffering 由依人身舟，度脱大苦海
【The Attitude of A Person of Small Capacity】- Relying on the boat of the human body, free yourself from the great ocean of suffering
【As Santideva says, you must rely on a life in a happy realm—exemplified in the verse by the human body—and cross the ocean of existence, reaching omniscience. Moreover, you must pass successively through many lifetimes. Consequently, ethical discipline—the preeminent cause of achieving a body in a happy realm—is the root of the path.】
This cites from the commentary. We must rely on "the boat of the human body." The human body of leisure and opportunity is like a boat. This human body is our jewel, our tool for freeing ourselves from cyclic existence. A boat is a precious raft that will carry us across the suffering ocean of cyclic existence. It's just like that. This is the meaning behind this metaphor. Therefore there is a need to rely on a body, a human form, a human form among the happy realms to be freed from the ocean of the three realms [of cyclic existence] to reach the level of omniscience. This will require a long period of time, a long period of time. The many causes needed to obtain this were explained before. But the root of this is what? [It is] ethical discipline. Hence this is the root of the path. When we talked about "shila" before, it seemed to be ethical discipline. Now we understand the guiding principles or the steel bone structure of it is the principles of karma, the principles of karma. It is precisely because of karma that you must maintain ethical discipline.
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66A 02’23” Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P38 L9
English Lamrim Vol 1 P262
日常师父法语📡66A 02’23”手抄稿第9册P38 L9
业果 : 由依人身舟，度脱大苦海
【成办究竟决定胜者，谓如《入行论》云：“由依人身舟，度脱大苦海。”是须依止，以人所表善趣之身，度诸有海，趣妙种智，此复须经多生，故能办此身胜因尸罗，是道之根本。】
引论上面，我们一定要“依人身舟”，这个暇满人身就像船一样，这个人身是使我们超脱生死轮回的宝贝、工具，船是让我们渡脱这个生死苦海的宝筏，就是这样，这个比喻所指的内容。所以需要依止一个身体，这个人，善趣人身当中超脱三有之海，达到一切种智的地位。这个要经过很长时候，很长时候。那么为了达到这个种种的因缘，前面说过，而这个根本是什么？尸罗，所以这个是道的根本。以前我们讲“尸罗”好像就是戒，现在了解了这个戒的真正的纲要、纲骨，就是业的道理，业的道理；由于是业，所以你必定要持戒。