Explaining many profound dharmas is easy; living them yourself is hard.
-Adept Godrakpa, "Hermit of Go Cliffs"
What this quote means is that each of us can explain profound dharmas because of our intellect, but practising those dharmas is difficult.
The reason why practice may be difficult is because we are human: the emotions of love, anger and fear give birth to egosense, which beclouds seeing the Pure Mind as-it-is e.g. "things as they are".
Thus we feel that our human nature prevents us from ever realizing that True Nature (Buddha-nature) and human nature are at one with each other. Hence the feeling of falling short of being perfect.
How foolish!
For practising faith is as easy as reflecting on repentence as the devotee reflects upon the vows of Amida, and especially of Samantabhadra.
Despite not being able to live profound dharmas, it takes deep faith to accept the limitations of human nature.
Yet this is no excuse for a Buddhist devotee to forget about the vows and the study of the sutras.
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