Hua Zhi Rinpoche explained the standard of self exchange with an analogy: there are five herders, but only one of them has a raincoat enough for only four people. When they encountered a heavy rain, the owner of the raincoat gave his raincoat to the other four people and was willing to get caught in the rain. If we can do this in all practical actions, it is the real heart of self other exchange.
It is worth noting that this is just a metaphor. If it’s just a small matter of raincoat, we can certainly do it. In addition, in some things, we may make a similar self other exchange. For example, if one of the two people needs to bear some minor pain, the one who has a little concept of Mahayana Dharma is likely to stand up and say, “I can suffer for him.”
But in fact, only when we can do this in all things, can we really change from others. So, can we change from him now? Very difficult! However, it doesn’t matter if we can’t do it now. We can take it as the goal of practice.
When can we really achieve this goal? Only after landing. When we enter the first place, we completely get rid of self attachment. At that time, we don’t care about ourselves, but can completely change from others. But before that, as a mortal, it is really not a simple thing to really change from him.
It is also said in the theory of entering Bodhisattva’s actions that ordinary people can’t think of these selfless actions, not only for others, but also for themselves. Because these lofty thoughts are too far from the selfishness of ordinary people.
However, the key problem now is not to fail to meet the standards, but not to work in this direction.
Please think about it: what are we doing every day? Many people not only do worldly Dharma for themselves, but also take themselves as the center in their hearing, thinking and practice. This is the biggest obstacle to our practice of grand multiplication.
Therefore, although we can not fully accept these ideas now, we still need to work in this directionHua Zhi Rinpoche explained the standard of self exchange with an analogy: there are five herders, but only one of them has a raincoat enough for only four people. When they encountered a heavy rain, the owner of the raincoat gave his raincoat to the other four people and was willing to get caught in the rain. If we can do this in all practical actions, it is the real heart of self other exchange.

It is worth noting that this is just a metaphor. If it’s just a small matter of raincoat, we can certainly do it. In addition, in some things, we may make a similar self other exchange. For example, if one of the two people needs to bear some minor pain, the one who has a little concept of Mahayana Dharma is likely to stand up and say, “I can suffer for him.”

But in fact, only when we can do this in all things, can we really change from others. So, can we change from him now? Very difficult! However, it doesn’t matter if we can’t do it now. We can take it as the goal of practice.

When can we really achieve this goal? Only after landing. When we enter the first place, we completely get rid of self attachment. At that time, we don’t care about ourselves, but can completely change from others. But before that, as a mortal, it is really not a simple thing to really change from him.

It is also said in the theory of entering Bodhisattva’s actions that ordinary people can’t think of these selfless actions, not only for others, but also for themselves. Because these lofty thoughts are too far from the selfishness of ordinary people.

However, the key problem now is not to fail to meet the standards, but not to work in this direction.

Please think about it: what are we doing every day? Many people not only do worldly Dharma for themselves, but also take themselves as the center in their hearing, thinking and practice. This is the biggest obstacle to our practice of grand multiplication.

Therefore, although we can not fully accept these ideas now, we still need to work in this directionHua Zhi Rinpoche explained the standard of self exchange with an analogy: there are five herders, but only one of them has a raincoat enough for only four people. When they encountered a heavy rain, the owner of the raincoat gave his raincoat to the other four people and was willing to get caught in the rain. If we can do this in all practical actions, it is the real heart of self other exchange.
It is worth noting that this is just a metaphor. If it’s just a small matter of raincoat, we can certainly do it. In addition, in some things, we may make a similar self other exchange. For example, if one of the two people needs to bear some minor pain, the one who has a little concept of Mahayana Dharma is likely to stand up and say, “I can suffer for him.”
But in fact, only when we can do this in all things, can we really change from others. So, can we change from him now? Very difficult! However, it doesn’t matter if we can’t do it now. We can take it as the goal of practice.
When can we really achieve this goal? Only after landing. When we enter the first place, we completely get rid of self attachment. At that time, we don’t care about ourselves, but can completely change from others. But before that, as a mortal, it is really not a simple thing to really change from him.
It is also said in the theory of entering Bodhisattva’s actions that ordinary people can’t think of these selfless actions, not only for others, but also for themselves. Because these lofty thoughts are too far from the selfishness of ordinary people.
However, the key problem now is not to fail to meet the standards, but not to work in this direction.
Please think about it: what are we doing every day? Many people not only do worldly Dharma for themselves, but also take themselves as the center in their hearing, thinking and practice. This is the biggest obstacle to our practice of grand multiplication.
Therefore, although we can not fully accept these ideas now, we still need to work in this direction