If our teachers are not teaching what the Buddha taught, I don’t think we will want to learn from them. So actually, everyone will agree that we really want to learn from the Buddha, but do we remember? Knowing something doesn’t mean that we will remember it, especially when we are in the situation where our afflictions may arise. We also have this tendency to forget things that we know are important. For example children will forget that they need to go to school. Similarly being beginners, we are like Primary school students in Buddhism so we will still tend to forget things that we ought to remember, such as the important practice of making offerings to the three jewels, we need to be reminded again and again.
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