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Can You Slack Off on Your Dharma Practice after You See Your Original Nature? Erroneous View #23

"Wintry Branches in the North" painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
“Wintry Branches in the North” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III

No! Even if you attain certain realization powers and can understand the nature of all phenomena, you must still cultivate yourself and develop your bodhichitta. Avoid heretical thinking and behavior and continue your dharma practice.

Erroneous View #23:  Acknowledging that after one has illuminated one’s mind and seen one’s original nature, one may slack off in one’s practice.  There are those who understand their mind and see their original nature. After they attain realization powers and understand the nature of all phenomena and true such-ness, they slack off in their practice. They no longer like to do their dharma practice and do not engage in the cultivation of the six paramitas. They just like to repeat one or two adages. In the course of teaching others, they say, “Remember what I am about to say. You have to visualize. Visualize this energy and lock it up. Your thoughts must be still. Let your former thought go and do not let your next thought arise. …” Such words are completely heretical. Such words are wild nonsense that is totally erroneous. One must teach people to cultivate and act out of bodhicitta. That is what people who have understood their mind and seen their original nature should do.

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