There is a very vast misconception that there are people with
great capacity and thus great potential for awakening, and some
with small capacity and little potential for awakening. This is
half right, half wrong.
Worse still, some people imagine that enlightened practitioners
are all 'special emanations of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas coming to
the saha world to save sentient beings' as if those practitioners
are somehow more 'special' than us, that they are some sort of gods
or deities descending from the sky to 'save us'. This is far from
true - those are simply practitioners like you and me, who made
their effort and succeeded - and you can too.
This one line by Loppon Namdrol resolves this issue at once:
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Capacity depends on personal interest and diligence -- nothing
more.
N
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You can apply this not only to 'dharma practice' but also
'learning piano', 'studying exams' - everyone CAN pass their piano,
studies exams... it's whether they are interested and diligent -
nothing more.
Buddhism is not easy for our intellectual minds to
understand.
When I first look into buddhism. I was thinking how come buddha
is not affected by pretty girls. I never seen a guy that can do
this.
There was a story abt buddha cutting flesh to give to eagle or
something, I also think got people so noble meh.
Buddhism can be a hard pill to swallow.
I also discusses with my secondary school friends, all of them
say they are pretending to be 青高。