FOUR BENEFITS OF LEARNING DHAMMA THIS WAY.. EXPECT FOUR BENEFITS WHEN THE TEACHINGS HAVE BEEN:

FOUR BENEFITS OF LEARNING DHAMMA THIS WAY..
EXPECT FOUR BENEFITS WHEN THE TEACHINGS HAVE BEEN: 

 

1.  FOLLOWED BY THE EAR

2. REINFORCED BY RECITATION 

3. EXAMINED BY THE MIND

4. WELL COMPREHEND THEORETICALLY...

Take a mendicant who memorizes the teaching—statements, songs, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and classifications. 

They’ve followed those teachings by ear, reinforced them by recitation, examined them by the mind, and well comprehended them theoretically

But they DIE UNMINDFUL and are reborn in one of the orders of gods. Being happy there...

1.  Passages of the teaching come back to them. MEMORY COMES UP SLOWLY, but then that being quickly reaches distinction

2. Passages of the teaching don’t come back to them. However, a MENDICANT WITH PSYCHIC  POWERS, who has achieved mastery of the mind, TEACHES DHAMMA to the assembly of gods. They think: ‘I used to live the spiritual life in this same teaching and training.’ Memory comes up slowly, but then that being quickly reaches distinction.

3. Passages of the teaching don’t come back to them when they’re happy, nor does a mendicant with psychic powers … teach Dhamma to the assembly of gods. However, A GOD TEACHES DHAMMA to the assembly of gods. They think: ‘I used to live the spiritual life in this same teaching and training.’ Memory comes up slowly, but then that being quickly reaches distinction. 

4. passages of the teaching don’t come back to them when they’re happy, and neither a mendicant with psychic powers … nor a god teaches Dhamma to the assembly of gods. But A BEING WHO HAS BEEN REBORN SPONTANEOUSLY REMINDS ANOTHER SUCH BEING: ‘Do you remember, good sir? Do you remember where we used to live the spiritual life?’ He says: ‘I remember, good sir, I remember!’ Memory comes up slowly, but then that being quickly reaches distinction.

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