First
of all, Dalai Lama does NOT represent all Buddhists. Dalai Lama is NOT Buddhism.
Dalai Lama is just an ordinary old monk with big problems. Now let’s go to the
actual topic of this article.
I
was sad and shocked, like many of you, by that disgusting incident with the
child, which is why I wrote about it in my previous article (click here to read it). However, I have
recently come to the conclusion that what happened there is NOT an obstacle for
the Buddha Dharma, but an opportunity to learn and get detached from the things
that are not essential, to realize that we live in a dark age when many monks
are actually just monks in name only, as we often say in Jodo Shinshu, and that
nowadays devotion and faith should be turned towards the Powe...