The Ninety-fifth of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

[Shokai]

95) The Ninety-fifth Gate; To teach and guide living beings

To teach and guide living beings is a gate of Dharma illumination; for we ourselves neither indulge pleasures nor become tired. (Nishijima/Cross)

Teaching sentient beings is a gate of realizing dharma; it does not bring unwholesome pleasure and indulgence. (Tanahashi)

Gate Gatha:

May we, together with all buddhas;
Be a lamp unto all living beings
That we may neither indulge pleasures nor become tired.

Reflection Prompts:

1. How does teaching others cause us to avoid Pleasures or tiredness?

2. Write a new Gate Gatha.

3. Comment on the Capping Verse.

Capping Verse:

Student or teacher?
Lines are blurred
When sharing Dharma

gassho, Shokai
stlah

[aprapti]

teacher is student
lines are perfectly clear
when sharing Dharma



aprapti


sat

[Tairin]

Thank you Shokai

1. How does teaching others cause us to avoid Pleasures or tiredness?

I am not sure. Perhaps leading by example? I know that to teach one really needs to know the topic or live by the teaching.

2. Write a new Gate Gatha.

May we, together with all buddhas;
Guide all living beings
That we may neither indulge pleasures nor become tired.

3. Comment on the Capping Verse.

I think we see here at Treeleaf those blurred lines between teacher and student frequently. Yes I think many of us are here primarily due to the teachers such as yourself Shokai, Jundo, Kokuu, Kyonin etc but we see almost daily some observation or revelation shared by a Sangha member that provides a Dharma lesson for us all.


Tairin
Sat today and lah