Important Replies from Holy Virtuous Ones and Eminent Monastics
Response from the Inquiry Center of the World Buddhism Association Headquarters to Questions Raised by Inquirers
On the Day of February 6 of the Lunar year (March 22, 2018)
Answer No. 35
Masters who have not reached a level of golden button(s) and are still at the levels of blue button(s) can teach people but must be verified by the 128 views. Except great holy virtuous ones at the level of Golden Button Grade 3 or higher, a holy virtuous one at the level of Golden Button Grade 1 or Golden Button Grade 2 also has to be verified by the 128 views, to see whether this master’s views are correct or belong to evil views. Actually, anyone who is knowledgeable about and understands Buddhism and also does not fall into the 128 views can teach people. However, if one has really already fallen into the 128 views with serious violations, such a person will absolutely lead people to evil paths when teaching people!!!
One at the level of Golden Button Grade 3 is a great holy virtuous one and a non-receding Bodhisattva. They sometimes act seriously but also behave casually from the state of Samadhi at other times Therefore, it is difficult to distinguish or judge them. One of the examples is the Crazy Lama Yixi Yangga. Other examples are the son of Rigu Wenbo Rinpoche and Wang Zha Shang Zun, who sometimes acted in strange and peculiar ways and thus are difficult to distinguish.
We hope that you all can be absolutely careful, to prevent fake and false masters from harming you throughout this lifetime and causing you to devolve into one of the three lower realms and experience all kinds of suffering. For the sake of your own perfect good fortune and wisdom, liberation, and accomplishment, you all please read repeatedly to understand this reply from holy virtuous ones!
Separately, some people stated that no offerings or donations should be made to temples except the Ancient Buddha Temple. They said that other temples and the abbots of the temples have no empowerment and offerings to them will not have merit. Such statement is an erroneous view. The correct view should be: Regardless of whether the recipient is a temple or an individual, donations made to the undertaking of correct Buddhist work or even an organization that does good deeds all have merit. However, the merit is truly different in terms of magnitude and level. If one presents an offering of a bowl of food to Sakyamuni Buddha, the merit is truly extremely great. In contrast, if such an offering is made to a rinpoche or dharma master, how can the merit be compared to the merit of presenting an offering to Sakyamuni Buddha? However, it is definitely not easy to be able to present an offering to the World-Honored One. That depends on whether you have such karmic condition. All phenomena have to be produced from karmic conditions.
Take, for example, an event occurred at 12:30pm on November 14, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary. It was a very cold day. After viewing the scenery sight, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and His entourage walked to the parking lot and were about to get on the vehicles to go to the next sight-seeing area. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III suddenly turned around and walked toward a high mountain top. The accompanying holy virtuous ones at the levels of golden button(s), kind and knowledgeable ones, and other people as well as non-humans all hurried to follow up. The tour guide said, “There is no scenery spot up there, no nice view.” H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III continued to walk forward. At about halfway on the hillside, all sniffed an unendurable stinky smell which would make people vomit and throw up. That was because a kind of stinky fertilizer had been applied on the ground to grow grass. The air was chilly and stinky. However, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III simply did not turn back and continued to step ahead. No one knew the reason. All covered up their nose and said one after another, “It is so stinky!” The tour guide said, “This is hard to endure. Let’s go back!” H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III did not seem to have heard that and just continued to go forward. Everyone had to follow His Holiness the Buddha to climb up.
When the crowd was about to reach the mountain top, the foul air completely vanished. A pair of young Caucasian parents with a toddler of about one year old were seen. The little boy opened his legs wide and made a few shaky steps to walk toward H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Before His Holiness the Buddha and with great joy, his face presented a flowery smile. He then lowered his body with a bow, but could not balance himself and just fell and sat on the ground. He used both of his hands to scoop a handful of mixed soil and sand and reached out his hands to present that offering to His Holiness the Buddha. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III touched his head and pronounced a prophesy for him. Seeing the situation, those who were in the entourage were astounded and their jaws dropped. They all made a vow of great clarity and purity at that time.
We believed that the little boy possessed the extremely great holy karmic condition of holding up the sand to present that offering to His Holiness the Buddha. He had nothing valuable to present as an offering and could only scoop up sand from the ground to present as an offering to the Buddha. The merit of his pure state of mind is absolutely limitless. If that karmic condition had not existed, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III would not have turned around suddenly, at the moment of having viewed the scenery spot and about to get in the vehicle to leave, walked toward a mountain top that had no scenery to view and is not visited by tourists. At that time, all were muddle-headed and could not figure out the reason of not going to the next nice sight-seeing place and coming to this place instead. Then, a kind virtuous one said, “I now understand! So the Buddha came here to accept the sand this toddler presented as an offering. This event does have the same karmic condition and phenomenon as that of Sakyamuni Buddha accepting the sand presented by a child as an offering.”
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III said, “You cannot baselessly guess and make untrue comments. I am an ordinary Buddhist. What qualification do I have to be on the same rank as Sakyamuni Buddha? Other than cultivation, I only have humility. How could I have the ability to know that I would meet this toddler? This is just an accidental encounter by chance. Do not describe this incident mysteriously with exaggeration.”
Do you believe that is an accidental encounter? Why would one not go to a nice scenery tourist spot and instead insist on walking through this long section of road to a chilly and stinky high spot that has no view to see? Only an idiot would believe this was an accidental encounter. What we said does not have the slightest exaggeration and is completely based on the fact witnessed by the persons in the entourage. His Holiness the Buddha is so selfless, so modest, and so purely holy! His Holiness the Buddha is absolutely a Tathagata with limitless true enlightenment!
Perhaps some of you may question why this entails holy purity. This is correct because, with this ironclad fact, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III did not say that He is the incarnation of an ancient Buddha and that He walked there specifically to accept the sand offering from the toddler. Rather, He said that He is an ordinary Buddhist and the incident was an accidental encounter. Isn’t such virtue of nobility and brightness holy purity? Actually, how can that only be holy purity? That is a Buddha with supreme, non-differentiating, and perfect enlightenment!
Without mentioning the facts that the level of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in the five vidyas is unmatched in the history of Buddhism and that Buddhas bestowed nectar to prove that Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra is the dharma expounded by a Buddha, just based on H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s real Buddha face of red-coral color seen by many people that manifested characteristics among the 32 major marks of a Buddha such as sunlight-type illumination keeping people’s eyes from opening and the thin, white light between His eyebrows with miraculous variations in the lengths and number of strands of light rays and illuminating empowerment, there are already mounting evidence that He is a Buddha.
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III attributes all good things to others and always picks up the shortcomings of others to bear by Himself. Oppositely, some people who are ordinary beings and common people in nature try to use all possible ways to boast themselves and fake a holy one. Such people took whatever looks good but has nothing to do with them as their own. This kind of persons are so low and so evil.
As an example, the right to the product “Superior Power Hair-Nurturing Liquid” (also called Fabisheng in Chinese, meaning “Hair Must Grow”) that was approved by the Department of Health of China as the No. 1 product, which was H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s own invention, has been infringed by someone for 30 years. His Holiness the Buddha not only did not do anything to get His right back but also bore people’s misunderstanding that money had been submitted to Him. If not due to this infringer exposing her selfish and malicious mentality this year, people would only know the fact that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is the only one who does not accept any offerings and just serves the great masses for free and would not know that the selflessness, absence of greed, and bright Buddha state of His Holiness the Buddha even transcended the level of having no attaching thought to the wealth that He perfectly deserves from His own invention. Who else has attained such supreme holy state? The right has been taken away from His Holiness the Buddha for 30 years, yet His Holiness the Buddha never uttered any word of bitterness.
The noble and bright morality, character, and feats of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in the aspects of not pursuing fame or gain, selflessness, absence of greed, benefiting the great masses with modesty by treating others equally, and caring about others better than Himself will take more than several books to write. We have collected so many true examples in the process. We can only say that the state of kindness, the enlightenment of Buddha, and the auspicious illumination are extremely astounding and moving!
We wish that you all abstain from the evil and do all deeds of kindness, so that you will successfully cultivate great power of accomplishment, open up and develop great wisdom, and realize Bodhi early to enjoy boundless and long-lasting good fortune, auspiciousness, and prosperity!
Inquiry Center of the World Buddhism Association Headquarters
Written on behalf of great holy virtuous ones to answer questions raised
March 22, 2018