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Letâ??s say thereâ??s somebody who wants to seek a Buddhaâ??s help, but who is a Buddha? Even doing that is hard. If you donâ??t believe it, let me spell it out. When the first person goes up to an unconsecrated Buddha statue, bows to it, and pays homage, things suddenly fall apart. Tell me, how many of the people who go to seek a Buddhaâ??s help do that to achieve a True Fruition? Way too few. So what motivates most people to worship a Buddha? Getting rid of bad fortune, resolving adversity, and getting richâ??thatâ??s what theyâ??re after. Are those things in the Buddhist scriptures? Thereâ??s absolutely nothing like that.
If a Buddha worshipper wants to get money, once he bows before a Buddha statue or a statue of Bodhisattva Guanyin or of a Tathagata and says, "Please, please help me get rich," uh-oh, a complete idea forms. Since what he sends out is aimed at the statue it gets on it instantly. Objects in other dimensions can expand and shrink, and once the idea gets on that object, the Buddha statue will have a brain, and itâ??ll be able to think, but it wonâ??t have a body. Then other people come to worship it, they worship and worship, and that gives it some energy. Itâ??s even more dangerous if the worshippers are practitioners. From the moment they start to worship it itâ??ll gradually start to get energy. So it forms a tangible body, but the tangible body is formed in another dimension. After itâ??s formed, it exists in another dimension and is able to know a bit of the truths of the universe, so it can do some things for human beings, and it can build up a little gong that way. But the help it gives comes with strings attached, thereâ??s a cost. It moves around freely in that other dimension and controls ordinary people at will. And that tangible body has exactly the same look as the Buddha statue. So thatâ??s how a fake Bodhisattva Guanyin or a fake Tathagata comes into being through worshipâ??theyâ??re created by peopleâ??s worship, and they look the same as the Buddha statues and they take on a Buddhaâ??s appearance. The mind of the fake Buddha or fake Bodhisattva, as it turns out, is just rottenâ??itâ??s after money. Itâ??s created in another dimension, itâ??s able to think, and it knows a little bit of truth. It doesnâ??t dare to do seriously bad things but it does dare to do some little bad things. And sometimes it helps people. If it didnâ??t help people it would be totally evil and itâ??d be killed. So how does it help people? Maybe someone prays, "Please, please Buddha, give me a little help. So-and-so is sick in my family." "Sure, Iâ??ll help you." It will ask you to put money in the donation box, since it has money on its mind. When you toss lots of money into that box itâ??ll help the person get well quicker. It has some energy, so itâ??s able to control an ordinary person from other dimensions. Itâ??s even more dangerous if someone with gong goes to worship it. Letâ??s see, what does this practitioner pray for? Money? Think about itâ??what does a practitioner want money for? Even praying to get rid of bad fortune and sickness for your family is an attachment of affection for your family. You want to control other peopleâ??s fates, but everybody has his own fate! If you worship it and murmur, "Please, please help me get a little richer." "Alright"â??itâ??ll help you. Itâ??s just itching to have you ask for more money. The more you ask for, the more things it can take away from you. Itâ??s a fair deal. Thereâ??s plenty of money other people tossed into the donation box, and itâ??ll let you get some. How will you get the money? You might find a wallet out of nowhere, or you might get a bonus from your company. It will go to any trouble to get you the money. But it canâ??t help you for nothing, can it? No loss, no gain. It gets some of your gong since it wants gong, or itâ??ll take away your elixir or other things that youâ??ve cultivated. Thatâ??s what itâ??s after.
Sometimes these fake Buddhas can get pretty dangerous. A lot of our practitioners whose Third Eyes are open think that theyâ??ve seen Buddhas. There was somebody who said that a group of Buddhas came to a temple one day and that one of the so-called Buddhas had such-and-such name, and he led the group. The guy talked about what yesterdayâ??s group was like, what todayâ??s group is like, and how that group just stayed for a while and left, how another group came on its heels, and so on. So who are they? Theyâ??re exactly the type I talked aboutâ??they arenâ??t real Buddhas, theyâ??re fake. Thereâ??s quite a lot like them out there.
If a temple has that problem itâ??s even more dangerous. When a monk worships it, itâ??ll take charge of himâ??"Arenâ??t you worshipping me? Itâ??s obvious youâ??re worshipping me! Well, donâ??t you want to cultivate? Iâ??ll take care of you. Iâ??ll arrange your cultivation." So itâ??ll arrange things for you, but where will your cultivation take you? No discipline in the heavens will accept you now that youâ??ve cultivated according to its arrangements. It arranged your cultivation, so youâ??ll be under its guidance from here on out. Then wonâ??t your cultivation be a waste? Iâ??d say that nowadays itâ??s hard for human beings to attain a True Fruition through cultivation. This kind of thing is pretty common. When many of us see Buddha-light in well-known mountains and in famous valleys, most of it is something like that. They have energy and can show themselves. But a true Great Enlightened Being would never show himself so rashly.
There were fewer of those so-called "earthly Buddhas" and "earthly Daos" in the past, but there are a ton of them now. When they do bad things Heaven will kill them, and theyâ??ll rush to those Buddha statues when they know their lives are at risk. Great Enlightened Beings donâ??t just go and disrupt the laws governing ordinary people. The greater the Enlightened Being, the less likely heâ??ll go against the laws for ordinary peopleâ??he wonâ??t even break them the slightest bit. After all, he canâ??t just suddenly smash a Buddha statue with a thunderbolt. Thatâ??s definitely not something heâ??d do. So when it runs and gets on a Buddha statue heâ??ll leave it alone. It knows when its life is at risk, so it runs away. Then is the Bodhisattva Guanyin you see the real Bodhisattva Guanyin? Is the Buddha you see a real Buddha? Itâ??s hard to say.
