Before learning Buddhism, you carry the world’s ordinary burdens. After learning the dharma, you somehow accumulate even more.
Common traps for practitioners: obsessing over dietary rules, using teachings to look down on others, employing doctrine as a weapon in arguments, and judging everyone else’s practice.
More practice can intensify difficulty. This is universal.
The solution? Expand your mind like the ocean. Settle it like the earth. Practice with ease and acceptance rather than rigid attachment to doctrine — and karmic obstacles dissolve naturally.
Master Pháp An once said: “The Buddha doesn’t run fast — he moves slowly because he carries heavy burdens.”