【Human Life of Leisure and Opportunity】-  he who knows that he is wrong is the wise one

Introspect a little [and realize], ah-ya, this is so right! I am just going round and round about on the words only. I don’t really know its true meaning! Once you have this, you are then willing to advance, to learn. Otherwise, we always feel that we really know the principles well, but in reality we are still outside the door.

The sutra keeps telling us, he who knows that he is wrong is the wise one. At least he knows he is wrong. Yet, we ordinary beings are filled with errors and we feel we are the wise ones. That is the most foolish! These two things are not that easy. I felt this for myself many years ago. When I studied, I felt so happy that I understood it: ah-ya, the importance of the correct view, the sublime view. Once a Venerable told me, “(For) the sublime view, do you truly understand the sublime view? I thought about it for a while, I thought… I seem to understand it? Then he said some principles [behind it], Oh! Yes. For the true sublime view, in Mahayana, you’ll have to be a first stage Bodhisattva to gain it.

SOURCE 来源 :

32B 02’29” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P276 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P127

日常师父法语📡32B 02’29” 手抄稿第4册P276 L8

暇满 : 有智慧的人，晓得自己错

反省一下：哎呀，对呀！我在文字上面转哪，真实的内容还不知道啊！你有了这个，就肯上进，去学了，否则总觉得自己很懂得道理，实际上在门外转。

这个经上面一直告诉我们，这个自己晓得错的，那这个是个有智慧的人，他至少晓得自己错的；而我们凡夫浑身都是错误，还自己觉得智者，那真是愚中之愚啊！这两个不大容易。我自己觉得很多年以前，那么，那时候自己看了，觉得好高兴，懂了：哎呀，那正知见，正见的重要。有一次法师就跟我说：正见，你真的懂了正见啦？我想了半天，我觉得……这个好像懂了嘛？他就说了些道理，噢！对了，真正的正见说起来大乘要到初地菩萨。