Tonight,
we did a Guru Rinpoche Practice under the guidance of Acho Rinpoche. After
which, he shared with us an article on the Internet which mentioned about the
serious mistake of blaspheming a Bodhisattva, as such conduct is equivalent to committing
a negative karma of killing all the people in this world. In fact, this is a
common mistake made by us when we simply criticize others of their
shortcomings; we have indeed committed a negative karma by doing so simply
because we can’t tell who are the Bodhisattvas among us! Even a prostitute, a practitioner
who has seemingly transgressed the precept etc., might just be a manifestation
of a Bodhisattva who are trying to help the sentient beings by some skillful means!
So, we should not criticize others. Even H.H Dalai Lama, H.H Jigme Puntshok, Khenpo
Sodargye, Venerable Jingkong, Venerable Haitao etc., have been criticized by
others too. So, who is right and who is wrong?
There are simply too many
accusations on the Internet. Just ignore them. As long as a person teaches
sensibly and in accordance with the Buddha’s teachings – it can be considered a
right teaching. At times, a teacher may stress the importance of a particular
aspect of the teaching and end up with a slightly different way of interpretation.
We just need to choose a teaching that is suitable to us and apply it in
practice. There is really no need for anyone to criticize others. The Mahayana
Buddhism, especially that which is transmitted in China today, tends to
criticize the Tibetan Buddhism wrongly due to the lack of understanding of the skillful
means employed by the latter; the former has committed a very serious negative
karma indeed. Therefore, Acho Rinpoche advised us that we ought to be very
careful in our conduct by voiding such mistake.
Finally, we ended our prayer by reciting the names of
the Buddhas under the guidance of Acho Rinpoche, and dedicated the merits to
all sentient beings - may all sentient beings be happy, free of sufferings and
attain enlightenment one day.
Reported
by Sun Moon KFS on 2-9-2017 @Singapore
