Within this world, the most powerful obscuration or negativity is known as the grasping of self, the “I”, or the ego. When one just thinks of “I” and has that kind of strong ego and pride, then within that kind of mind-stream it is very difficult to have these dharma teachings and practices. Pride or …
The Buddha said: “We must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; nor traditions because they have been handed down from Buddha”antiquity; nor rumors, as such; nor writings by sages because sages wrote them nor fancies that we may suspect to have been inspired in us by a Deva; nor from …
