..续本文上一页么万佛城的沙弥、沙弥尼、比丘、比丘尼，都是天天搭着衣的，可是现在还有几个是没有脱衣，其余去打禅七的，多数都是不搭衣了，所以这是令我没有面目回万佛城的一个最要紧的地方。
我现在对你们大家讲这个来龙去脉，前因后果。啊！你们大家想一想，我这么多年的心血，来一个人，给我改一改，来一个人改一改；来十个人，就改十样；来二十个人，改二十样；来一百个人，改一百样。万佛城统统也没有多少，就是吃一餐、搭衣，平时都搭衣。还有，说人坐单、持银钱戒，这都不是普遍的。坐单也不是普遍的，持银钱戒也不是普遍的。居然啊！有这个本来修行说八风吹不动，现在我不知道这是哪一股风，就把这些个人都给吹遍了！
你们各位居士想一想，我在美国这儿，这有什么用呢！没有用了！所以这个话，我啊！和你们讲这话的时候，我心里很沈痛，因为我是一个很小气的人，没有那么大量，见不得人不守规矩，见不得人不守诺言。既然跟着我出家，当时发愿说，答应我可以吃一餐，为什么这么几十年过后，就会改了。那我现在还活着，就这样子；那我死了以后，不知变成什么样子了，我痛心也就是这个。现在告诉你们各位，我在如果有必要回万佛城的时候，我现在做一个假面具，预备戴假面具回去给我这些个徒弟看看，看看我原来是戴假面具，若不戴假面具，没有真面目回去了。
Venerable Master: "If left-home people do not wear the kashaya sash, it is the same as their going back to lay-life. Because Buddhism in China has always been corrupt, I came overseas to proclaim that left-home people should eat one meal a day and wear the sash in accord with the Buddha”s teaching. At the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, we observed these rules of eating one meal and wearing the sash. Yet during this Chan Session you went so far as to not wear the sash, and to eat three meals a day. I have taught you for so long, yet you were turned by the first state that came along. Are you alive or dead
What kind of guts do you have, that you have been turned around and around like this
If you recognized the true spirit of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, you would rather die than change. ”So you want me to not wear my sash
Tell me to die, but don”t tell me to not wear my sash! Tell me to die, but don”t tell me to not eat one meal a day--with that kind of solid samadhi power, that kind of faith, you are a true member of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. Once I recognize my goal, I won”t waver from it even if I have to die. Even if by entering the Chan Hall without my sash, I could get enlightened as soon as I sat down, I wouldn”t dare do it! Now that the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas has become this way, I”m never going back."
(Ven. Master”s lecture at Gold Wheel Monastery 1/23/1993).
In Cultivation, We Should Hold To Our Principles
In cultivation, we should hold fast to our principles, and not forget them. In studying Buddhism, we should also hold to our principles, for they are our goal. Once we recognize our goal clearly, we must advance with vigor and courage, and not retreat. Speaking of this, I remember when I first left home, I thought, "Left-home people are so numerous. Do they all understand the Buddha-dharma
Do they all have a goal
When I investigated into this, I found that a great many left people had no wish to cultivate or to end birth and death, and didn”t have much of a goal at all. They were just passing the time, "eating and waiting for death." Left-home people of this sort do nothing but add to the debts and burdens of Buddhism. They do not benefit Buddhism in any way.
I further discovered that Chinese Buddhism does not even realize what Buddhism is all about. The Buddha expounded the Sutras and proclaimed the Dharma all for the sake of letting future generations understand the Buddha”s teaching. How should Buddhist disciples propagate the Buddha”s teaching
As I thought about this, I observed that Buddhism never planted its roots deeply in China. Buddhism in China is actually rootless, and thus it has not stood firm in the face of tests and oppression. Why is it rootless
Because it failed to recognize the foundation. What is the foundation of Buddhism
The foundation of Buddhism is education! Education must start with the youngest children, instilling them with the knowledge, the wisdom, and the way of thinking of Buddhism. Then, at the very least, a child is raised to be a truly noble and fine citizen of the country and world. With a foundation for his thought and goals to guide his conduct, such a person will be able to vastly propagate Buddhism. …
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