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Am I Controlling You? What Am I Doing All This For?
Sit down, everyone. I was just going to receive you today, and unexpectedly, I am now giving you a Dharma impartation. This karmic condition arose due to a Dharma teacher named Shi Huicong 釋慧聰 who is sitting on the side here. Is that you?
(The disciple Shi Huicong puts his palms together and respectfully replies: Yes.)
Speak louder!
(The disciple Shi Huicong puts his palms together and respectfully replies: Yes, I am Shi Huicong.)
He said he couldn’t find the Dharma lineage of Dorje Chang Buddha III, so he went to China and there he found the Dharma lineage. All Buddhists, disciples, listen carefully: There is no Dharma lineage of Dorje Chang Buddha III in this world! There is also no Dharma lineage of any Dharma masters! The only Dharma lineage in this world is called Buddhism. Again, what Dharma lineage is this? It is called Buddhism: The Buddhism of Shakyamuni Buddha, and the Buddhism of all Buddhas in the ten directions. Keep this in mind forever! There is only one Dharma lineage. From now on, don’t speak amateurishly.
(Members of the congregation put their palms together and respectfully reply: Yes.)
To say that you have follow the lineage of Dorje Chang Buddha III is absolutely nonsense, and it is a non-Buddhist way of thinking. Dorje Chang Buddha III does not come from any lineage, only Buddhism! Remember this forever. As to those so-called lineages, groups, patriarchs, sects, or schools, they are all factions. They are factions established over time by patriarchs after Shakyamuni Buddha entered parinirvāṇa. They are called factions. Keep this in mind forever. Regardless of how accomplished those patriarchs were, what they established are still factions because within Buddhism, there is only the teaching of the Buddha, and there is only one lineage.
When this Dharma master raised this question earlier, he wasin fact representing many people who have the same question. What exists in many people’s mind-consciousness and idea is that “this is our lineage.” This is very naive and a seriously erroneous understanding and view. This is even an evil view and it is wrong.
Think about it from a different perspective: Would you say that the teachings given by all the monastics and rinpoches in this world are the teachings of Buddhism? You could not possibly think this way. You have to query it. You have to question those teachings. Are what they teach the teachings of Buddhism? It requires verification. Buddhism means the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha. However, monastics and rinpoches in many sects or schools are propagating Dharma. Their teachings have been passed down from one generation to another. Currently, a great many of those wearing Buddhist attire have already succumbed to evil views. Therefore, they haven’t been Buddhists since a long time ago. Even though they are monks, they are not Buddhists. Even though they are rinpoches, they are not Buddhists. Even if they are geshes or larampa geshes, they are not Buddhists either. I am saying this matter-of-factly.
Why? What they teach are not Buddhist teachings at all. In the audiorecorded Dharma, True Dharma Discerns Evil Monastics 正法鑒邪僧, that I imparted more than two decades ago, it was proven that those so-called eminent monks didn’t really know the teachings of Buddhism. This phenomenon is especially prevalent in the recent era. A great number of socalled eminent monks in the recent era are giving people absolutely non-Buddhist teachings that are intermixed with the teachings from the Sutras of Shakyamuni Buddha. As a result, they have confused Buddhist practitioners who mistake those teachings as authentic Buddhist teachings. That’s why I am telling you now: There is no such lineage that Dorje Chang Buddha III learned from. I have no such lineage. All I have is Buddhism—the authentic and unaltered teachings of the Buddhas in the ten directions, and that is what I impart directly.