下文的作者格桑索朗仁波且是鹽湖城的宣法佛法中心的負責人，她通過扎西卓瑪仁波且在2009年皈依第三世多杰羌佛並在數年後成為佛陀的直接弟子。下面是她對佛教在美國的現狀的論述和見解。她也在本網站的文章部份發表了一篇關於她自己的經歷的更長也相當有說服力的見解的文章。她也在宣法五明大學領學“什麼是修行”及其它課程。
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“Every time I read the discourse, ‘What Is Cultivation?’ by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, I get a fresh new insight that makes me wonder why I’d never fully taken in that concept before. In my latest reading, I was deeply struck by the Buddha Master’s words on the mind that fears impermanence. I’d read them many times before and had understood them at a surface level, ‘oh yes, that’s about motivation to practice and cultivate ourselves, that makes sense.’ My understanding of this mind remained at this level of ‘making good sense’ until recently.
In my latest reading, my understanding and my gut level assimilation reached full flowering. If this mind is not real for us, is not actually scared, we simply won’t put in the necessary devotion and effort for ending the cycle of birth and death, for freeing ourselves. Our practice won’t be deep enough. I’d seen this inevitable consequence many times within the communities of Western Buddhists I’d known. The secular ideas and agnosticism about reincarnation, so prevalent among Western Buddhists, do not bring forth the fear of impermanence. I didn’t see people change that much or devote to their practice or develop that kind of faith that means you’ll succeed. So many people I knew gave up practicing all together. Something has to change in Western sanghas so more people can accomplish liberation and model for others the kind of devotion needed to do so.” Gesang Suolang Rinpoche
NOV
2018