In the Sutras we find the repeated injunction "Listen well, and fully, and retain what you have heard in your mind!" This is reference to avoiding the three defects of a faulty vessel.
The first injunction, to listen well, means to listen with enthusiasm, to listen with longing, to listen with a full and focused intention and in doing so, we avoid the defect of being an upside down vessel.
His Holiness, 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
From teaching on Torch of Certainty
by Jamgon Lodro Thaye
by Jamgon Lodro Thaye
at 31st Kagyu Monlam
Session 3
No comments:
Post a Comment