【RELYING ON THE TEACHER】- Wisdom arise from listening

Once you hear the key points – what does it mean by this? From study, if you are able to have wisdom arise from study, that will do. However, you studied but are unable to have wisdom arising from study, then it is of no help; that will not work out! So when the teacher talks about the true essence of Buddha Dharma, “certainly, the purpose of Buddha Dharma is to break through…and ethical discipline, concentration, and wisdom are to identify the signs.” When the teacher is teaching, you will think, “Oh well, oh well! I now know the sign of attachment and the proper remedy for it.” You are able to identify it, once you have this recognition, you will have more or less some sort of experience, and then use it to distinguish the differences. If you don’t have this experience, you will not be able to distinguish [the sign of attachment and so forth].

I will use a very simple worldly case for everyone to understand right away. For instance, when we write characters, for someone who is totally illiterate, they will not be able to distinguish good [handwriting] from bad. If someone comes to write German or Russian, and you have no clue what Russian looks like, how can you tell if his writing is good or bad? You have no way of knowing. For the illiterate to write Chinese, he would not know what he is drawing. If you have learned it before, needless to say, for a calligrapher or college student, even for an elementary student, as long as you have learned and you take one look, you will be able to distinguish this word is pretty and that word is less perfect. However, you are not able to write calligraphy, right? Because you more or less have some understanding and experience, that is how it works.

SOURCE 来源 :

15B 21’19” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P243 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P75

日常师父法语📡15B 21’19” 手抄稿第2册P243 L8

依师 : 听闻得闻慧

什么叫听闻得到诀窍？ 你闻而能得闻慧的话，行了，你闻而不得闻慧那个没有用， 那个没有用！所以他讲的佛法的真实的内涵，说：是，佛法是这样，它目的是破......，戒、定、慧指出行相。当他讲的时候，你心里感觉：“哦、哦、哦、哦！我现在了解了，原来这个贪的行相这样，他用什么方式去对治它。” 你那个认得了，认得了多多少少你有点很轻微的体验，你有了这个体验，然后去鉴别就可以看得出来。 如果说你没有这个体验的话，你没办法鉴别。

我现在说一个世俗很简单的，大家一下就了解了。 譬如说我们写字、写字，就是一个完全不懂得字的人，你看不出这个字的好坏。假定说一个人跑得来写德文，写俄文，你根本不晓得俄文是什么样子，他写得好坏你怎么晓得他？ 你一点办法都没有。 他写中文，你不认得字的人，他也不晓得这是什么， 画的是什么东西。 如果是你学过，不要说你啊是个书法大家，不要说你是个大学生，就是你是小学生，你学过了，然后你跑得去看，你就晓得他这个字美，他那个字比较不好。 你自己写不出来，对不对？ 因为你多多少少了解一点，经验一点，这样。