A. It isn’t as a result of it doesn’t seem earlier than us however as a result of you possibly can’t recognise it which you can’t see it. It at all times reveals itself earlier than you even at this second if you learn this writing, to not point out if you attend retreats. You’ll be able to’t see it as a result of it’s lined with a large number of assorted shapes of issues and might’t hear it as a result of it’s lined with numerous fancy and believable phrases.
What you will have to bear in mind is that if you learn Buddhist literature such because the sutras and data of historic masters, or hearken to Dharma talks, it’s best to learn and pay attention past phrases. In Buddhism a Dharma speak refers to not remarks or texts however to a gate. Even in case you are content material with mental understanding of every phrase you learn and hearken to, you will have failed to grasp what you learn or listened to when you’ve got not attained enlightenment, that’s, you haven’t handed the gate. That is why some historic masters would say that every one the sutras are solely Mara’s talks if we’re deluded by phrases with out greedy the core.
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