The Basic Mistake

Most of us have been held back in Dharma, not because we haven’t been able to receive Dharma teachings, but because we haven’t been able to put them into practice; I’m sure most of you have already received teachings and met lamas.

Nor is it that we don't wish to practise the Dharma—we do.

The problem is that we don’t know how to practise. This comes from not having good objectives or having a good way of studying the Dharma.

Through not knowing the correct methods of study, we don’t take the right understanding from the teachings we receive. So it is misunderstanding the teachings that skews our practice and stops us from making decent progress. This is what happens, as I see it.

– Excerpts from the e-book Turning Your Mind to the Dharma.