Posted by: vishontar August 24, 2006
Nepe's book on the web
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I have a very close friend, very very close one. He is so intelligent that I got surprised. when he learned 12 verses of Pali within few minutes. I hardly repeated for about 2 times each verse, he learned all of them by heart. He is the most intelligent amnong my freiends. You will get surprised if I tell you his story. He was studying in a highly reputed shool in India but he couldn't pass his 12. Then his parents brought him Kathmandu and sent him to KU. He told me that he always use to be high in the class room and he didn't know what the teacher was teaching. He couldn't take degree from KU either. He was a weed smoker, very indiscipliend person. How can he be attentative. This is not a made up story. Now he is in Kathmandu and runs a hydroproject. Do you still want to say that only intelligence is enough for learning? I know a person, very intelligence one. He fell in love with a woman and couldn't get her. Then he turned to an alcoholic. Now he can not learn anything. His intelligence went in vain. Discipline, attentiveness and intelligence, all three are required for learning. This is universal law of learning, not a low made by Buddha. Some are more intelligent. Some are more attentative. Some are more disciplined. Some have all of these three qualities. Some has dominent two. But to learn you need all three more or less. You can not learn if anyone is completely missing. Think of it, if you think you are an intelligent :)! As you suggested I should continue for other .... I may return.. However, for now I must leave . .... I must leave Sajha ........... Love you Nepe Dai :)! Bye for now!
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