【依师 Relying on the Teacher】具慧 Intelligence

依师 ： 具慧

所以有了正住进一步要有具慧，否则的话，你跟着他，你是心里面不会执着你的，然后呢，他听你这样你就跟着他走，这样；他听你那样你就跟着他那样，你就完了！正住已经很难得了，结果你不具慧的话，尤其是现在这个时候，真正的善知识不是没有，少，而是一般的人多。你听着他，跟着他去跑的话，那就害了——一盲引众盲，相牵入火坑。我们现在平常一般状态都是什么？叫「一犬吠影，百犬吠声。」平常我们晚上听见那个狗叫，有一个狗看见一点影子，哎，嘎啦、嘎啦叫起来了，其他的狗跟着，大家叫，俨然有很多事情。其实这个什么影子？风吹草动！你不能说它没有影响，但是了不相干。这个就是这个地方说「似道」，我们一定要辨别得清楚，一定要辨别得清楚，这样我们才有机会不耽误自己啊！

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日常师父法语📡16B 00'56" ~ 02'05" 手抄稿第二册P267-LL2

16B 00'56" ~ 02'05"  Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P267-LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1  P76

【Relying on the Teacher】- Intelligence

Thus, once [we] possess non-partisanship, the next qualification [we] must have is intelligence. Otherwise you follow him without being attached to what is in your mind;  then, when you listen to him this way, you will follow him this way, and when you listen to him that way, you will follow him that way, [in that case] you are hopeless! Non-partisanship is already very difficult, and if you do not possess intelligence, especially during this present time, when true virtuous teachers are not lacking but are just rare and outnumbered by average beings; if you listen to him and follow him around, that is harmful – a blind leading numerous blinds, and together they fall into the fire pit. What is the condition of our current normal state? It is like “one dog barking at a shadow, and hundreds of dogs barking at the noise.” Often, at night we hear dogs barking, a dog sees a shadow, well, starts to bark; all the other dogs follow and bark together. It sounds like there is much commotion. Actually, what kind of shadow is this? It is the wind blowing through the swing grass! You cannot claim that there is no influence, yet it is totally irrelevant. This is what the text refers to as “counterfeit paths”, we must distinguish this clearly, must distinguish this clearly. By doing so, we will have the opportunity not to live wastefully.