And also be aware when somebody is praising you. “Oh, you are a great teacher” and then you say “Ah, okay, thank you”. And then somebody says “Oh, you are a terrible teacher” and you say “Oh, thank you”. [haha] So that awareness protects you, shields you.
So it’s very important, the moment you become very quick responsive to everything and then you become vulnerable. I’m not saying don’t be open to criticism. If you have an office to run , a company to run, you have to be open to critics, otherwise you lose the foundation of it, right? So you have to be open to critics but it doesn’t mean that you have to be vulnerable to every single sentence of praise and every single sentence of criticism. It doesn’t have to touch your heart.
Just have a little bit of awareness and then it can help you very much because in life we suffer a lot, because we respond so quickly, we say things and then we hurt other individual unnecessarily, then we cannot take the words back, we cannot heal the pain of the other person. It’s already permanent damage. So that’s that.
So if other persons are saying things, well, you can say your truth once or twice but not so many. If you have to repeat your truth too many times maybe you have to doublecheck your version of truth.
So long as you keep your peace, you share your truth once or twice. But if you have to repeat your truth too many times then maybe you have to check your surroundings. Maybe you have to doublecheck whether it is the absolute truth or whether it is your illusionary mind that believe that is the only solution or that is the only truth.
So when you practice Dharma with awareness it can give you a lot of success in life because you can be agile, you can adapt to the situation, you can be agile, you can have awareness, you become not vulnerable to anything. So you can be very strong. Even you are not enlightened, just applying the Dharma method, awareness throughout your life and relationship, marriage, work, dealing with people, it can help you very far if you know how to utilise it, right? Then if you become too extreme and then say “Oh, you know, nobody really understands me” with that mind of course nothing can get you far.
Six-Armed Mahakala Teachings – Vajradhara Ling France
July 13, 2024 – Morning session (1h 23′ 10”)
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