True Humility

A practitioner of Mind Training or Greater Vehicle Buddhism should try to be as unobtrusive as possible with their good qualities. You see this trait in many true practitioners. It’s not as if they are trying to hide something they think they have. They genuinely believe themselves to lack any special qualities. Having learnt something of the immense qualities of the buddhas, bodhisattvas, siddhas and so on – they feel that it would be dishonest to act as though they have any good qualities. It is totally opposite to our way of being desperate for others to see the few good qualities we have, or to even perceive in us good traits that we do not have.

Autumn 2022, Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Nepal