Can an assistant teacher add anything to the instructions or discourses on a ten-day course or children’s course? Why would a teacher want to add something or correct something? Is there any defect in the teaching? The teaching has been accepted by the whole world and there have been no comments that there is something wrong with it.There is a tendency for subtle ego to arise in a teacher sitting on the Dhamma seat and for him or her to think, I am not here just to handle this equipment. Guruji has spoken a lot, so I should say something now. And as soon as one teacher adds something, another teacher will feel he or she must add even more. Deviation will start, and within a few generations, or maybe even within a few years, the whole teaching will be spoiled.The Buddha’s teaching which is given here is kevalam� paripunn��a�m—complete, with nothing to be added; kevala�m parisuddha�m—so pure that nothing has to be taken out of it. No teacher, assistant teacher, or children’s course teacher should make the mistake of adding to or subtracting from this teaching. Work as you are asked. Why is it important for us—students, Dhamma servers, trustees, ATs, and teachers— to practise a few minutes of mettā after our daily sittings? Do this for your own benefit. Mettā generates good, wholesome vibrations for others and as soon as you start generating these, you yourself benefit. In the same way, when you generate unwholesome vibrations of ill will towards others you are the first victim and become miserable.Now you have to change that habit pattern so you think, Instead of generating ill will let me learn how to generate goodwill for others. You can’t generate goodwill unless your mind is to some extent pure, so you sit for an hour to purify your mind, and then learn how to generate goodwill for others. It is an exercise that helps you to change your behaviour pattern. ~ SNG @ vridhamma.org/uploadedfiles/BenefitofMany.pdf
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:12:59 +0000
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