Learn to Correspond to the Heart with Dharma

Learn to Correspond to the Heart with Dharma

In the process of studying Dharma, many people only pay attention to theoretical  study, but ignore the meditation on Dharma’s meaning, let alone the practice of  it. That's not a good way to study Dharma.

If we do not study dharma with heart, no matter how well we know about the theories and how eloquently we talk about dharma, the dharma will not correspond to the heart when we don’t seek progress within. Such practice is as absurd as the situations listed in the Avatamsaka Sutra: "Like a poor person counting the treasures of the rich day and night, but he himself is penniless. Like a good doctor good at making prescriptions, but if he is ill, he cannot be healed without taking medicine. Like a deaf person to play nice music, but he himself cannot hear it ".

There are those who pray daily to the Master for blessings, but do not practice by themselves, do not know to adjust their mind, so their seeds of afflictions are also hard to be eliminated.

The Venerable Milariba, at the last moment of seeing off his disciples, revealed the callus on his hip and told them: "The real practice is very important."

If what we learn doesn't correspond to our life at all, and sometimes, even deviates from it, it is still difficult to achieve the goal of helping others even when we share the supreme Buddhist teachings, which we know it by heart, with those around us because others will compare what you say with what you do. Since your own life is not corresponding to the Dharma, people will feel there is nothing to learn.

So we must learn to correspond to our heart with the dharma, then our own real change can be altruistic. That is the best expression of dharma.

Buddhist practice is not the pursuit of the mystery of being detached from the world and isolated from the rest of the world. It is not the pursuit of the dignity of unselfishness, detachment, and standing aloof from strife, but the practice of the supreme Dharma corresponding to our own hearts.

That's the best way to practice Buddhism

Khenpo  Jamyang