I think the current problem in the Buddhist circle is to cut the line between "protecting the Dharma" and "teacher" in a black and white way, but they also look at a specific teacher from the perspective of "worshiping gods": many Buddhist disciples have come to know a new Spirit of practice (Buddha/Bodhisattva/God), the first question is "Is he in the world or beyond the world?" Cut into two kinds of holy or common. If one hears that a spiritual spirit is still in the world (has not yet reached the Dao), the questioner's mind will be full of thoughts: "Oh, then he still has greed, hatred, ignorance," and "I don't know the truth"; this kind of thinking is very strange. :
No matter whether the other party is true or not, it is basically more true than you, right? In fact, this kind of question shows that many Buddhist disciples now want to "worship Buddha" rather than "learn Buddhism": worship itself has the nature of industry email list admiration, and naturally they hope that the object of worship is of high rank. Precisely because what he has in mind is worship, he often does not objectively analyze the "characteristics and merits" of a spiritual spirit, but directly divides it into two categories: holy and profane. It's like trying to use a single standard to classify people into good and bad, and then you can omit the mental effort that needs to be speculated later.
Anyway, I will worship the Holy One, and I will not pay attention to the common ones. If it is the protector of the world, then I will give you food on a regular basis, and you should be obedient. Probably this attitude. However, if we go back to the essence of Buddhism and look at it from the perspective of "learning", the perspective will be completely different: if we want to study a major, what we will care about most is not how high the other party is, how much money they make, how long How good-looking is not even how good and famous he is in his own academic ability, but how much he can "teach me". Based on this point of view, The Solemn Theory of Liberatio