Liberation in the Palm of Your Hands - Day 3 Page 92
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While listening to Dharma some people wonder, “What is he going to say that I don’t already know or haven’t already studied?” Listening like this will not benefit you at all. Others only pay attention to the interesting anecdotes and do not take profound points of the instruction seriously. Here is an illustration. When Kaelzang Gyatso, the Seventh Dalai Lama, was giving a teaching on Lamrim, a man was heard to remark, “Today was really informative! The Dalai Lama told us that Lhuendrub Fortress in Paenpo District was also known as Mayi Cha Palace.” We mustn’t be like such people.Still others listen as if to check on the lama, whether his teachings conform with the texts or not. Lama Tsechogling Rinpoche, a tutor to one of the Dalai Lamas, has said, “These days disciples seem to be checking the lama’s accuracy.” Listening to a teaching like this will never benefit you. It is most important to bring pressure on your mindstream while you listen. When lamas teach the Lamrim, their main concern is not the correction of verbal faults; they are teaching mainly as a means to subdue the mental streams of their disciples.
I found this on dorjeshugden's FB fanpage and I thought how interesting!
https://www.facebook.com/DuldzinDorjeShugden/photos/a.333716930003137.72762.124479407593558/681315841909909/?type=1&theater It got me thinking and this was what I had to say...
Such a student or listener... will always end up heading nowhere, always finding fault, always centre hops, maybe have many Gurus, loyal to none, has mixed practices or is mixed up inside lol. He/She will always be the "lousy student", never learning anything and achieving nothing but his/her own ego.
Geez... if you're going to attend a Dharma Class with a authentic Lama teaching, firstly it was your choice to go, so you must have already checked him out right?!
If you're new, all the more to listen with your heart not head! And if you need to "check" the Guru out, check through His/Her actions; kindness, compassion, consistency, courage, generosity, etc all the good qualities... their characteristics basically.
It is and will be 100% accurate, I am sure of it foryour 6th sense will kick in and tell you, He or She is the real deal or not! Even if the Guru shouts at someone, look deeper what He is shouting about and not the "shouting" per se for the Guru is kinder or even more kinder than your mother who disciplines you when you needed it most! May the blessings of lineage master blesses all students with an open mind and <3