the great treasure dharma king: the arrogant container cannot accommodate the water of merit!

the ancestor of the kadam sect said: "the container of arrogance cannot accommodate the water of merit." for a arrogant person, it is difficult to gain some merit. the so-called merit does not refer to the merit of cultivation, but the merit of good deeds.

we practice not for the praise of others or for the supreme certificate, but for the benefit of sentient beings and buddhism.

what is the point if your own knowledge cannot benefit sentient beings and buddhism? his knowledge became worthless.

therefore, we must rely on good teachers, follow good friends, abide by the precepts, and sincerely pray to the master and the deity to accumulate merit, because in the five turbidities and evil worlds, practitioners will have greater obstacles.

therefore, in order to eliminate these obstacles, we must work harder to accumulate merit, combine our minds with buddhism, and let our practice benefit others.

if you study just to get a certain degree, you will become a worldly scholar who only studies buddhism. now some american universities have buddhist societies that study buddhism. i heard that they can also explain the "six dharmas of na luo".

it seems to be more detailed than we have, but they will also laugh at the practice in the "na luo six methods" because the qi and meridian practitioners in it will find it very funny and only regard it as worldly knowledge, not the way to liberation.

they will say, "there is still a kind of knowledge in this world, we haven't understood it yet, we have to study it." perhaps they have more knowledge than us.

but the purpose of learning must be used on buddhism and sentient beings, otherwise it will be meaningless, so that we will not waste our long-term practice.