Guard Yourself, Boundaries, & Karmic Affinities - 6th Patriarch Sutra - 07/28/2019

"Take yourself across; guard yourself. Only then will your coming here have not been in vain. You have come from afar to this assembly because we have karmic affinities in common."
- If you have the blessings you won't fear difficulty and hardship
- How to you plant great Mahayana blessings?
- Support a great good knowing advisor: This is to find a great field of blessings where you can plant
- Practice mark-less giving: the recipient does not even realize they are getting anything, that is truly mark-less giving
- Guard yourself from making mistakes
- What about when your children make mistakes? How do you protect them?
- Give them boundaries
- Likewise to guard yourself: Know your boundaries
- Without prior karmic affinities, you can't stay at the temple, let alone have the blessings to be taught
- The other aspect is you need the blessings to have your Co-cultivatiors as co-teachers
- Because the teacher can't tell you everything, sometimes you need encouragement from your peers
- Just help others cultivate, then you will receive help when you need it

Master YongHua lectures on the Sixth Patriarch's Platform Sutra, an essential text of the Chan (Zen) tradition. Live from Wei Mountain Temple.

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