【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- Is it white or black ?

Besides, when we serve a teacher in Tantric practice, that is totally different from our usual attendance on a teacher, completely different. There is a specific reason, if one’s qualification is not there, we should not use this approach to serve a Tantric teacher.

The way to attend to a Tantric teacher is such: the teacher picks something up, “Look at this, what is it?” You see it as black, the teacher tells you it is white, and then you have to look at it as white. You shouldn’t say that the teacher tells you it is black, anyhow, since he tells me it is white, then I will take it as white even though in reality it is black. Wrong! The teacher tells you it is white, you should contemplate in this way: “yes, it is white! However, due to my karmic obstacles, I see it as black.” You have to form an incomparably repentant mentality, just like that. The teacher takes one shoe and tells you: hat, and you react immediately to put it on your head, this is a hat. Why? Why do you do this? There are various reasons. You can’t just verbally abide by him; your mental conformity should be in accordance as well.

SOURCE 来源 :

36A 10’02” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P109 L9
English Lamrim Vol 1 P139

日常师父法语📡36A 10’02” 手抄稿第5册P109 L9

道次引导 : 是白色还是黑色？

而且到了密教里的师长，跟我们普通侍候师长的方式是完全不一样，完全不一样。这个里边有特别道理，如果自己条件不够的话，密教侍候师长的这种方式我们不能用。

密教侍候师长的这种方式的话是这样的，他随便拿一个东西：“你看这个，这个是什么？”我们看是黑的，他告诉你白的，你就是把它看成白的看。你不要说，那个老师告诉你是黑的—他反正告诉我白的，我就当它白的但实际上是黑的。不对！老师告诉你是白的，你的心里应该这样想：对的，白的！但是因为我的业障的关系，我看出来就是黑的。你要自己无比的忏悔的这个心情，就是这样。他拿了一个鞋子告诉你：帽子，你马上戴在头上，这就是帽子。为什么？为什么这个样？他有很多理由在，不是说嘴巴上面应顺他，你心里面也要这样。