The White Lotus ~ 11
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 10 Nov 1979 am |
| location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 50min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | WLOTUS11 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Question: What is right and what is wrong?
- Answer: Discrimination with no-mind is right. Discrimination with mind is wrong. When one transcends right and wrong, he is truly right. In a sutra it says, 'When one dwells on the right road, he does not discriminate "this is right, this is wrong".'
- Question: What is a sagacious student, and what is a dull student?
- Answer: A sagacious student does not depend on his teacher's words, but uses his own experience to find the truth. A dull student depends on coming to a gradual understanding through his teacher's word: a teacher has two kinds of students; one hears the teacher's words without clinging to the material nor to the immaterial, without attaching to form or to nonform, without thinking of animate objects or of inanimate objects... this is the sagacious student; the other, who is avid for understanding, accumulates meanings, and mixes good and bad, is the dull student. The sagacious student understands instantly; he does not raise inferior mind when he hears the teaching, nor does he follow the sage's mind, he transcends both wisdom and ignorance. Even though one hears the teaching and does not cling to worldly desires, does not love Buddha or the true path, if, when he has to select one out of two, he selects quietness from confusion, wisdom from ignorance, inactivity from activity and clings to one or the other of these, then he is a dull student. If one transcends both wisdom and ignorance, has no greed for the teaching, does not live in right recollectedness, does not raise right thinking, and does not have aspirations to be a pratyeka-buddha or a bodhisattva, then he is a sagacious student.
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