Part 3 - When the benefits have been explained, we arouse joy

Now there is the instruction to be joyful because of these benefits:

Here, since it is useful to have seen a guide,
And it is of use to hear the Dharma and practice it,
Making use of this life and all its later fruits,
Arises from having gained this free and favored body.
Contemplate this again and again, with the highest joy.

In former times Buddhas saw a guide and were completely liberated. In the occasion of this life, by being joined to virtue day and night, our life is worthwhile, and the seed of later liberationis planted. Being among those who are of good fortune, arises from contemplating the freedoms and favors, which are so hard to obtain. The Great Application of Mindfulness Sutra (dran pa nyer gzhag chen po) says:

Ananda, as that which has been well seen and well heard by you arises from having contemplated the freedoms. The happiness of beings, and whatever good dharmas there may be, all that should be viewed as being similarly established.

Therefore, let us meditate with heartfelt joy on having attained these freedoms.