وقتی زمانش فرا برسد، روشن‌ضمیری می‌آید، قسمت ۳ از ۴

We have a lot of incorrect ideas as practitioners. For example, many people think that they should follow the way of the Buddha, forsake everything and go out and beg for our necessity, and live a very, very bare, simple life, just like the bear(-person), picking berries and things like that. And maybe in that case, we will become very holy or become wise. But that kind of life is not the kind of life that offers us wisdom and Buddhahood. It is that the Buddhahood is already there. When the Buddha attained Buddhahood, it’s not because he ate berries and lived a bear(-person) life, bare-necessity life. Have you watched the film, “The Jungle Book” – bare necessity, eating bananas, berries, and things like that. This won’t give you enlightenment. Enlightenment comes alone whenever we seek it. […]

Now talking about weaknesses, I have another story for you. Another priest came to a kind of very famous practitioner, a Jewish rabbi, and asked him something concerning his personality. The priest, the lower priest asked, because he has a very bad temper. He said, “What shall I do with my tongue? Whenever I’m in the public, whenever I’m with somebody, I just cut them with it. My tongue is so sharp, it’s like a razor, and I can’t control it. I always criticize people. I see their weakness, I see their shortcomings, and even their good deeds, I can see them with a very inferior motive, so I cut them through. And I lost a lot of friends, business, I lost people, I lost the devotees, everything. What shall I do with my tongue?” Do you know what the rabbi said? Guess. […]