"Enlightenment? Sure, it'd be nice, but that'll never happen. Maybe for you, but not for me." How many times have we had that internal conversation with ourselves? Does it lead to practicing harder, just lazily practicing, or dropping the practice altogether? Is there a payoff for those many hours spent sitting on a cushion, working on kongans, chanting, and bowing? But maybe we even feel that even though we do all these things, that we don't deserve to be awakened anyway.
Min'Ui Maitri gives us examples of the Not too goof, the Bad, and the Downright Horrible from the Pali Canon, and what happened to them. No spoiler alert, you just have to watch for yourself and experience the talk.
