진전, 오만 05) Chan Talk - 20240323

 

우리의 훈련은 당신을 실패하게 만드는 것입니다. 왜 그렇습니까? 왜냐하면 당신이 실패하게 하면, 당신의 자아는 줄어들기 때문입니다. 당신은 더 이상 자신을 자랑스러워 할 수 없습니다. 주위를 둘러보세요. 당신보다 더 나은 사람들은 많습니다. 그렇다면, 당신은 어떻게 당신이 우리보다 더 낫다고 생각할 수 있나요? 그것은 대부분의 일반인들에게는 어려운 훈련입니다. 왜냐하면 우리는 당신 덜 오만해지기를 원하기 때문입니다. 이것이 진전의 비밀입니다.

 

진전을 한다는 것은어떤 의미일까요? 진전은 여러분이 더 행복해짐을 의미합니다. 여러분은 더 평화롭다고 느낍니다. 진전은 여러분의 에너지가 적어도 두 배가 되었다는 것을 의미합니다. 그래서 그것은 매우 두드러집니다. 여러분은 예전만큼 휴식을 취할 필요가 없는 에너지를 지닙니다.

 

자신감과 오만함의 차이는 오만함은 자신이 더 낫다는 믿음입니다. 경험으로 인해서 자신감을 느끼는 것이 괜찮습니다. 하지만 오만함을 바탕으로 자신감을 가지면 더 이상 자신감이 아닙니다. 이를 어리석음이라고 합니다. 우리 세계에서는 학생들에게 오만함을 경계하도록 훈련시키고 있습니다. 왜냐하면 오만할 때 부분의 사람들이 깨닫지 못하는 매우 해로운 행동을 하기 때문입니다. 오만함의 본질은 자신에게 큰 상처를 주고 있으며 자신도 알지 못하는 것입니다. 왜 그럴까요? 너무 오만하고 자신의 실패를 바라보는 것을 거부하기 때문입니다. 오만한 사람들은 자신의 실패를 바라보는 것을 두려워합니다. 그들은 다른 사람의 실패를 바라보기만 합니다.

 

절에 가면 집에 가져갈 수 보석이 너무 많습니다. 하지만 절에 와서 너무 오만해서 자신이 다른 사람보다 낫다고 생각합니다. 그러면 당신은 어떤 대가 없이 집에 가지고 갈 수 있는 보석과 귀중한 것들을 보지 못합니다.

Our training is to make you fail. Why? Because when you make you fail, your ego shrinks. You cannot be proud of yourself anymore. Look around you. There are plenty of people who are better than you. Therefore, how can you possibly think you're better than us? It is a training that is kind of difficult for most ordinary people because we want you to become less arrogant. This is a secret about improving.

 

What does it mean to you to make progress? Progress means that you are happier. You feel more peaceful.  Improving means that your level of energy doubled at least. So it's very noticeable. You have this surge of energy that you don't need to rest as much as before.

The difference between confidence and arrogance is that arrogance is the belief that you are better. It's perfectly okay to feel confident when it comes to experience. But if you're confident based on arrogance, it's no longer confidence. It is called stupidity. In our world, I'm training my students to guard against arrogance because when you're arrogant, you're doing something very damaging that most people do not realize. The nature of arrogance is that you are constantly hurting yourself big time and you don't even know it. Why is that? Because you're too arrogant and you refuse to look at your failures. Arrogant people are afraid to look at their own failures. They only want to look at others' failures.

 

You go to the temple, there are so many jewels that you can pick and take home with you. And yet, you come to the temple and you're so arrogant, you think I'm better than you. Then you're not seeing the gems and precious things you can take home with you for free.