Teachers & Students

Jan. 3 | If you have never questioned any teacher’s teachings, you must have encountered only perfect teachers, or you are an imperfect student. - Stonepeace

True Listening

Apr. 20 | True listening [to the Dharma] does not rest in how much you have listened to your Master [teacher] but in how well you have listened. Even if you have listened well, you would benefit only if you can apply properly what you have heard to the circumstances...

Best Student & Teacher

Mar. 30 | The best Dharma student aspires to be the best teacher [a Buddha]. The best Dharma teacher aspires to be the best student [a good disciple of the Buddha(s), e.g. in Pure Land]. ~ Stonepeace

How Poor Students Can Create Poor Teachers

Sep. 23 | As long as one is still not a Buddha, one is still a Dharma student, even if one sometimes a Dharma teacher. - Stonepeace To be a poor student of the Dharma in terms of being lacking in sincerity to accept the true Dharma is of course a big problem. However,...

Is There Tension Between Compassion & Detachment?

Jul. 30 | Emptiness in Buddhism is not nothingness; it is everythingness (physical and mental) being unsubstantial, being ‘empty’ of anything unchanging (e.g. self), due to constant change in the moment. - Stonepeace Does compassion, which relieves...

How Students Can Become Teachers

Mar. 31 | Only Buddhas, who are perfect teachers, do not require [constructive] criticism from their students. - Stonepeace What do you do when you encounter a Dharma teacher who teaches in ways far from perfect? I used to slap an invisible label of ‘lousy’...

Of Truth, Character, Teachers & Students

Jul. 16 | Judge knowledge by how effective it is, not by how difficult it is to acquire. – H.H. the 17th Karmapa ~ Force of Truth: To walk the path of truth is difficult. It can even be a bit risky in the beginning. But stick to it and others will gradually realize...