We don't teach Chinese Buddhism--in fact, there is no such thing as Chinese Buddhism; China has no real Buddhism. The only Buddhism in China is the kind that deceives old ladies. It's little old lady cheating Buddhism. (The little old ladies, however, do not cheat Buddhism.) The tenet of little old lady cheating Buddhism is, "Well, if you bow to the Buddhas--all you have to do is bow to the Buddhas--you can do away with all kinds of disasters and evil things. This is absolutely incorrect; the application of the principle of bowing is erroneous. When you bow to the Buddha, you bow out of respect to him. It's not that the Buddha comes along and gets rid of the disasters or does something to you to prevent them from occurring. When you bow to the Buddhas this eradicates your own difficulties and problems. It's not that the Buddha takes you by the hand or does something to the outside world. When you bow to the Buddha you yourself are correcting your own faults, erasing your own bad habit patterns.
Excerpted from Ven. Master Hsuan Hua,"ON TRANSLATING SUTRAS:
A lecture given by the Venerable Master Hua February 5, 1977, in the W. O. W. Hall in Eugene, Oregon." VBS #, Month, Year, pp.
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