..续本文上一页 and discernment until they are sufficient. Search for various tactics for probing: These we should develop within ourselves. To probe on our own is the right way. It”s our own wealth. Teachers lend us bits and pieces, which are merely fragments to serve as hints or as leads for us to contemplate so that they”ll grow and branch out into our own wealth.

　　Any Dhamma that”s a wealth coming from our own tactics: That”s truly our own wealth. We”ll never exhaust it. If we can think and probe cunningly in removing defilements until they fall away completely, using the tactics we develop on our own from the ideas our teachers lend us as starting capital, that”s our own Dhamma. However much may arise, it”s all our own Dhamma. What we derive from the texts is the Buddha”s — and we borrow it from him. What we get from our teachers, we borrow from them — except when we are listening to them teach and we understand the Dhamma and cure defilement at that moment: That”s our wealth while we are listening. After that, we take their tactics to contemplate until they branch out through our own ingenuity. This is our own wealth, in terms both of the causes — our contemplation — and of the outcome, the satisfactory results we gain step by step all the way to release from suffering and stress — and that”s entirely ours. It stays with us, and no one can come to pide up any of our share at all.

　　This is where the excellence becomes excellent. It doesn”t become excellent anywhere else. So try to find the excellence, the peerlessness that lies within you, by striving and being energetic. Other than this awareness, there”s no excellence at all.

　　But at present the heart is concealed by things that are filthy and worthless, and so it too has become something that lacks its proper worth. Right now we are washing it, peeling away the various kinds of defilement, step by step. When we have used our full strength to peel them all away until there aren”t any left in the heart, then the heart is fully pure. Excellence appears here in this heart — and so the excellence is excellent right here. We don”t have to search anywhere for anything more, for we have fully reached the ”land of enough.”

　　So then. I”ll ask to stop here.

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