พระอาจารย์ชี้ว่าคนที่พัฒนาได้จะพัฒนาต่อในสิ่งที่ยากขึ้นเองโดยอัตโนมัติ สิ่งที่ชี้ขาดคือนิสัยของแต่ละคนซึ่งเกิดจากสัดส่วนของธรรมชาติ 3 ฝ่ายในตัวเขา ไม่ใช่ความง่ายหรือยากของสิ่งที่เรียนรู้The teacher explains that someone capable of developing will automatically go on to develop harder things too — what actually decides this is a person's character, shaped by the proportion of the three natures within them, not whether what they learned was easy or hard.
One student asked: someone once claimed that being a genius ruins one's character, because everything comes so easily — no need to study or review, understanding comes just from listening. Then, as they grow up and life gets harder, they don't know how to review anything, since they've never had to practice it before. Is there any truth to this claim?
Someone Who Can Develop Will Automatically Go On to Develop Harder Things
The teacher explained that human beings, once able to develop in what they learn, automatically go on to develop other, more difficult things on their own — just like a gifted child who understands elementary school easily moves on to secondary school, understands that too, and moves on to university, developing further and further on their own. As for someone who doesn't actually understand the matter but criticizes it anyway, that's really just one uninformed person talking to another uninformed person.
What Actually Decides This Is a Person's Character, Not Whether Something Was Easy or Hard
What decides this is each person's character. Someone who doesn't love developing themselves won't develop, whether or not they understand something — lacking effort, lacking the heart to grow, they won't develop whether things are called hard or called easy. It comes down to that person's character, and a person's character arises from the proportion of the three natures within them: , , and the neutral.
A Larger Proportion of Wholesomeness Guides Growth; a Larger Proportion of Unwholesomeness Presses Us Down
If the proportion of wholesomeness is greater, wholesomeness will guide and teach, leading to continuous improvement. But if the proportion of unwholesomeness is greater, unwholesomeness wants to press the person down — it doesn't want them to know or understand, so it injects laziness, uses the sealing and obscuring element to conceal understanding, then piles on more laziness so diligence never takes hold, and denies as well, so the person simply cannot endure. This is unwholesomeness taking control, precisely because its proportion is dominant within that person.