| When we listen to the holy Dharma, we should listen | | | | understanding we have, no matter how intelligent we |
| with the attitude of 'Free from the three containers'. | | | | are, there is always someone else with more |
| One that complains a lot, incessantly about | | | | experience, intelligence and knowledge that if we |
| everybody around them, is like a container that is | | | | listen to and we try, can be of benefit to. |
| upside down. One who does Dharma practice but | | | | Therefore, it is very, very important to be listening |
| gets very few results, could be a container that is | | | | to Dharma talks free of the three faulty containers |
| contaminated. And one who doesn't know what to | | | | as it says in the holy Lamrim teachings. So, listen to |
| do, who recites "I don't know, I don't know" as their | | | | the Dharma and ensure that absorb what you hear |
| favourite mantra must be a container with a lot of | | | | and you retain the teachings. |
| holes. So we must listen to the holy Dharma free of | | | | Listen to the Dharma with a good motivation. Do not |
| those three types of fault containers. It is very, very | | | | think, "Okay, if I learn how to do Dharma, how will I |
| important to listen this way. | | | | get rich? How will I get a relationship? How will I get |
| When we are like a container that is filled with holes, | | | | business success? You see, what I want to tell you |
| contaminated, or downward facing, whatever we do | | | | is, through Dharma you can achieve all of that but if |
| we will not be able to move up in life, or become | | | | you're focused to achieve that alone, then you're |
| better or do better. That's true in normal situations | | | | using something very noble for something |
| and in spiritual practice . Why? No matter how much | | | | unimportant. |
| wisdom we have, no matter how much | | | | |