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iii. Leakage. Even if the instrument is standing upright
and very pure, still there may be some leakage. A
person like this hears and then forgets, so all his
newly-gained knowledge vanishes. He would not forget
if his hearing wisdom were firmly established through
meditation.
b. Mindfulness
For good hearing-wisdom the Six Conditions of
Mindfulness should be well developed:
i. One must always think of oneself as a sick person
who wants to be cured. (The fundamental diseases are
greed, hatred, and delusion.) Such a person will ask a
doctor for medicine. If one has no such thought, then the
Dharma will not be sought to help cure the sickness.
How can one think properly like this without the
practice of meditation?
ii. The guru should be thought of as a doctor who, from
his store of wisdom-medicines, will cure us. If
concentration is lacking, then this attitude will not be
considered in the mind.
iii. The Dharma is the medicine—but first one must be
able to keep this thought in mind.
iv. The practice of Dharma is the treatment given by the
"doctor," and one must take this medicine if a cure is
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