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'''Three defects of the vessel''' or '''pot''' ([[Wyl.]] ''snod kyi skyon gsum'') — three incorrect ways of listening to the [[Dharma]]. They are to listen like: | '''Three defects of the vessel''' or '''pot''' (Tib. <big>སྣོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱོན་གསུམ་</big>, [[Wyl.]] ''snod kyi skyon gsum'') — three incorrect ways of listening to the [[Dharma]]. They are to listen like: | ||
#a vessel turned upside down, | #a vessel turned upside down, | ||
#a vessel with a hole in it, and | #a vessel with a hole in it, and | ||
#a vessel containing poison. | #a vessel containing poison. | ||
'''Alternative version:''' | |||
As regards the three defects of the container, it is said: | |||
Not paying attention is to be like a container turned upside down. | |||
Not remembering is to be like a container with a hole in it. | |||
Mixing what you hear with mental afflictions is to be like a container with poison inside. | |||
These three should be avoided. | |||
As the sutra says: | |||
Listen well with full attention and remember what you hear..<ref>*Patrul Rinpoche, ''Preliminary Points to be Explained When Teaching the Buddha’s Word or the Treatises'', translated by Adam Pearcey</ref>. | |||
=='''Tibetan'''== | |||
<big>༼༡༽རྣ་བ་མི་གཏད་ཁ་སྦུབས་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐྱོན། | |||
༼༢༽ཡིད་ལ་མི་འཛིན་ཞབས་རྡོལ་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐྱོན། | |||
༼༣༽།ཉོན་མོངས་དང་འདྲེས་དུག་ཅན་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐྱོན།།</big> | |||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== |
Revision as of 18:51, 31 May 2011
Three defects of the vessel or pot (Tib. སྣོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱོན་གསུམ་, Wyl. snod kyi skyon gsum) — three incorrect ways of listening to the Dharma. They are to listen like:
- a vessel turned upside down,
- a vessel with a hole in it, and
- a vessel containing poison.
Alternative version:
As regards the three defects of the container, it is said:
Not paying attention is to be like a container turned upside down. Not remembering is to be like a container with a hole in it. Mixing what you hear with mental afflictions is to be like a container with poison inside.
These three should be avoided.
As the sutra says:
Listen well with full attention and remember what you hear..[1].
Tibetan
༼༡༽རྣ་བ་མི་གཏད་ཁ་སྦུབས་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐྱོན།
༼༢༽ཡིད་ལ་མི་འཛིན་ཞབས་རྡོལ་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐྱོན།
༼༣༽།ཉོན་མོངས་དང་འདྲེས་དུག་ཅན་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐྱོན།།
Further Reading
- Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), 'The Three Defects of the Pot', pages 10-12.
- Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher, 'The Three Defects of the Pot', page 35.
- ↑ *Patrul Rinpoche, Preliminary Points to be Explained When Teaching the Buddha’s Word or the Treatises, translated by Adam Pearcey