Humbleness Is the Dwelling Place
As has been said, “Humbleness is the dwelling place of the forefathers”….In spite of your intelligence and goodness, humbleness could still be maintained. Humbleness is the best moderator of your studentship. Often you might think that you are going to become the greatest yogi, or the greatest teacher, that you are going to teach and proclaim your dharma to the rest of the world. Or else you think that when you become the greatest yogi, you are going to fly over New York City and Chicago and compete with the airplanes. You think you will levitate and perform miracles all over the place. But those discursive thoughts don’t matter; humbleness is always the best and the safest. Humbleness rouses you to give birth to realization, because it allows you to hear and experience properly, without anything occupying your being. Your whole being is completely empty and waiting for the teachings to enter into you. If arrogance enters into your being, there is no room for humbleness, and the teachings have no room to enter. Moreover, when you are arrogant rather than humble, there is room for distorting the teacher or editing the teachings. So, to begin with, it is possible to become deaf and dumb as a result of arrogance. While you carry the burden of arrogance, you will not have any form of joy. It is time to create humbleness by means of the discipline of sitting properly and thoroughly.
