![]() As time goes by, if we always try, every day try, we’ll be able to overcome once, twice, and then more and more. We will miss out many times, our mind will be overtaken by delusion, controlled by delusion. At the beginning we will miss out many times, even if we know the meditation techniques well intellectually. The more we listen to the teachings, the more we meditate, the more we apply the techniques, the more chance we have of overcoming the enemy delusion. They know exactly how to overcome the enemy. And then they can fight back exactly according to that, whether it’s in the sky, under the water, on the ground, all the many different ways. They are much more prepared to fight, to know exactly how to fight-all the different techniques and how the enemy functions, how they fight. For example, as soldiers have more training, more watching, more remembrance, more awareness, in using weapons, they are much more prepared when the actual enemy comes. A very obedient student of the guru delusion. From beginningless rebirths we have been a student of delusion, a very obedient student of delusion, a very, very obedient student of delusion. Delusion is the guru and we have been a disciple of delusion from beginningless rebirths. We have been a disciple of delusion, we have been a disciple. We are unbelievably habituated our life has been lived under the control of the delusions from beginningless rebirths. We don’t exist without the delusions, almost like our mind doesn’t exist without the delusions. Our mind is so habituated, it’s almost like we don’t exist without the delusions, kind of like that. ![]() It is even difficult to be able to remember them in daily life, but when it’s for practice. When the delusion arises, it is even difficult to remember the teachings, the meditation techniques, the medicine for the mind, the teachings of Buddha, especially the lam-rim teachings. It doesn’t mean we are able to practice the antidote, able to use that all the time, it doesn’t mean that. ![]() That’s why even if we know the teaching intellectually very well, it doesn’t mean we are able to practice all the time. Our mind has been so unbelievably habituated with that from beginningless rebirths. Because the subject is very profound, very profound it is a very powerful antidote to the delusions that our mind has been habituated to or accustomed to, not only from birth but from beginningless rebirths. Here, it’s good to read slowly because it is for meditation, to have opportunity to meditate on it, to read one word, then have a space, then read one word, then a little space. But, of course, even as a puja, if you can think of the meaning as you are reading, then it’s more effective. If there are some pujas or something you have to read many times, like many hundreds or thousands of times, you can read them fast. ◄ Previous Section : Kopan Course 41 Index Page : Next Section ►
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