How can we retain what we have heard in a teaching?

At the conclusion of a session of listening, before you start conversing with others or allow yourself to become distracted, review what was taught during that session and repeatedly recollect what was taught, ensuring that you will remember it. 


If there are points that you have forgotten, consult other practitioners who were present. In that way, day after day you will be able to add the points noted in that day's session to those made during previous days, so that you will recollect all the points from all the days.

By doing this, you will gradually train the faculties of recollection and retention. And you will become more and more able to retain more and more Dharma.

His Holiness, 17th Gyalwang Karmapa

Ogyen Trinley Dorje

From teaching on Torch of Certainty
by Jamgon Lodro Thaye 

at 31st Kagyu Monlam

Session 3