If you dont find a teacher soon, youll live this life in vain.
Its true, you have the buddhanature.
But the help of a teacher youll never know it. Only one person in
a million becomes
enlightened without a teachers help. If, though, by the
conjunction of conditions, someone
understands what the Buddha meant, that person doesnt need a
teacher. Such a person has a
natural awareness superior to anything taught. But unless youre so
blessed, study hard, and
by means of instruction youll understand.
People who dont understand and think they can do so without study
are no different from
those deluded souls who cant tell white from black." Falsely
proclaiming the Buddha-
Dharma, such persons in fact blaspheme the Buddha and subvert the
Dharma. They preach as
if they were bringing rain. But theirs is the preaching of devils
not of Buddhas. Their teacher
is the King of Devils and their disciples are the Devils minions.
Deluded people who follow
such instruction unwittingly sink deeper in the Sea of Birth and
Death. Unless they see their
nature, how can people call themselves Buddhas theyre liars who
deceive others into entering
the realm of devils. Unless they see their nature, their preaching
of the Twelvefold Canon is
nothing but the preaching of devils. Their allegiance is to Mara,
not to the Buddha. Unable to
distinguish white from black, how can they escape birth and
death?
