【Relying on the Teacher 依师】Nonpartisanship 具慧

【RELYING ON THE TEACHER】-Nonpartisanship

Thus, once [we] possess nonpartisanship, the next qualification is intelligence. Otherwise you follow him without attach to what is [proper] in your mind; then, you listen and follow him, just like that; in that case you are hopeless! Nonpartisanship is already very difficult, moreover, you do not possess intelligence, especially during this present time, where true virtuous teachers are not lacking, they are just rare and outnumbered by average beings. If you listen to this person and follow him around, that is harmful – the blind leading the blind, and together they fall into the fire pit. What is the condition of our 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, one 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 can’t claim that there is no influence, yet it is totally irrelevant. This is what the text refers to as “counterfeit paths”, we have to recognize this clearly – this is required. And then we will have the opportunity not to live wastefully.

SOURCE 来源 :

16B 00’56” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P276 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P76

日常师父法语📡16B 00’56” 手抄稿第2册P276 LL2

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。”平常我们晚上听到那个狗叫，有一个狗看见一点影子，哎，嚘啦、嗄啦叫起来了，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！