接战准则 – Rules of Engagement

This blog-site is a statement of my personal views about everything, but predominantly about all forms of Buddhism, which has been the focus of my different lives since Gautama Lord Buddha, the Sage of the Shakya clan, the Blissful Lord, of whom Amitabha Buddha, the Buddha of Limitless Light is the Samghogakaya (Bliss Body), descended from Tushita Heaven to walk the dusty roads of Jambudvipa (India) for the sake of every single one of us without exception. I view every single word of the Buddha as having been spoken directly to me personally.

这个博客是我私人关于每件事的意见之表示，但主要的是关于每一个形式的佛教，因为该题是我前世些不同生之焦点，自从释迦牟尼佛陀上人、释迦宗族之圣人、充满幸福之主人，以阿弥陀佛为乐体（報身），而从兜率天曾降世，乃至走南贍部洲（印度）的满尘路为我们毫无列外地每一个人之利益。我以为佛陀所说的每一个单词是直接地为我私人而说的。

The blog-site has a liberal TOS policy which has allowed me to do this, in the face of innumerable objections from numerous quarters. I am grateful for that. This kind of opposition always has been, and always will be, the necessary condition under which the Truth is spoken in this dreadful realm of five pollutions and stinging red dust, where everything beloved must necessarily die.

让我继续这个行为就是这儿的很开明的服务条件政策（TOS），在冒着从很多地方来的不可量的反对。此该我当然很感恩。这种反对，自从无始的从前到不可思议的未来，这种反对永是表示任何的正觉在这个污然五浊、刺痛红尘、所爱常死的惡世之必然性的条件。

I have personal Rules of Engagement in this, which I would like to now state, in the hope of relieving some of the stress of my East Asian friends about me, because they do not necessarily understand how what I state here might map onto my “real world” behavior:

我现在要表明我自己有的接战准则在这个很有价值的努力之中。希望这个四条之下的声明可以解除我东亚朋友们对我的紧张，为的是他们不必然地明白我在这儿写的东西怎么会代表我「真实的世界」之行为:

1. Dissent – I never have, and never will, express dissent in my speech or behavior in any Buddhist temple. When I disagree with what goes on in temples, I simply just ignore it or leave. Sometimes I write about the disagreement here. This is not a temple. I can do that because of my constitutional right to free speech as an American. It does not mean that I am about to foment a disturbance in the temple. It means that my birth culture does not require me to suppress dissent. The Buddhadharma in general, if you will actually read it, also does require the suppression of dissent. The automatic and obligatory suppression of dissent is an East Asian cultural habit and preference which violates fundamental American core values with respect to free speech and democratic social structure. I am entitled to my opinions, and I believe that the transmission of the Buddhadharma to the American mainstream requires the expression of my opinions about Buddhism in general, even when that may be traumatic to Asians. But I will never do this in the temple. I will do it here on my own personal turf.

1. 异议 － 我又曾没有、又不想要用我的行为或语言而在任何的佛堂引发异议。(这包括有些举行异教的教义，或我可讨厌的习惯之日本宗派。）要是我不同意于在寺庙所发生的事，我仅仅地不理它，或离开。有时候，我记述那些不同意的观想在这儿。这儿并不是一座寺庙。这个能力是从我当美国人的言论自由之宪法权利来的。那（我些不同意的观想）不指示我在寺庙内要引发一顿扰乱的行为。反而，那所指示的是我的本生教养不需要我止住异议。大体上来讲，佛法也不需要你止住异议，假定你事实的读它。自动的加上强制性的止住异议是违犯美国基本和中央、关于言论自由和平等社会历程的价值的一件东亚文化的习惯和偏爱。除了我意见的资格性以外，我以为我一般来说的关于佛教的意见是传输佛教到美国主流的一个必然性的条件，尽管对亚洲人家的创伤有的含意。可是，在佛堂的时候我绝不要做这个。我要在这儿的我私人所有的草皮而做这个。

2. Orthodoxy – For me, the Buddha is the highest and final authority in Buddhism. I do not accept words originating with other proposed Buddhist authorities whatsoever at all. This includes such things as the Nihilist heresies of Shinran Shonin, and Xing Yun Dashi’s use of apocryphal Neo-Confucianist Repentance texts in Fo Guang Shan Centers. In general, anything presented as the teaching of the Buddha from other sources in East Asian culture will most definitely meet my explicit criticism on this site. My experience has been that what conflicts with, or departs from, the words of the Buddha simply does not work in a Buddhist context, and that such “expediencies” are untransmittable to the American mainstream. I will not give face to them anywhere, and that includes this site.

2。正统说法 － 以我，世尊的佛陀独立地是佛教的无上例子的、最决定了的权威。我完全绝对地不接受什么另外被提议的佛教权威。像（日本本願寺宗的）親鸞聖人的虚无主义性的异教、星云大师在佛光山中心用儒门忏悔伪经的权威则包括在内。大体来说，任何的所谓佛教、从东亚另外（非佛教）文化来源所单面的东西要遇见我最确切地批评在这个网站。我所有经验表明的是，任何冲突或离开于佛陀所说的话到底没有所为在一个佛法的环境，而且该题的「方便」是不可能传输到美国主流的。在任何地方，我不支持她们，包括这个网站在内。

3. East Asian culture – In, general I like East Asian culture and participate in it. But I will not honor it, feel good about it, or participate in in when it is presented, in and of itself, as the teaching of the Buddha. The Buddha’s teaching is culture-transcendant and world-transcendant. It transcends all of our birth cultures. Our birth cultures are our own, but the Buddhadhama is the Buddha’s alone, and it was spoken for all sentient beings, not any given culture, East or West.

3. 东亚文化 －大体来说，我喜欢和参加东亚文化。可是在当面为自治证明为佛法文化的情形之下，我不要尊敬、喜欢、或是参加它。佛法有超越文化、又超越世界的才能。它超越我们所有的本生教养。我们的本生教养是我们个人自己所有的，可是佛法是佛陀所有的，而且为所有的众生说的，非为某定的一个文化，或是东方，或是西方。

4. 从药师佛打念月期开始（2009年10月19号），每一个方在这网站的东西必得利用双语。此后，单语文章永远戒除。

4. Since the start of the month of Medicine Master Buddha recitation (19 Oct 09), everything posted to this site must be bilingual. After this, single-language documents are ruled out forever more.

南无消灾延寿药师佛
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I take the name of disaster-solving and life-lenthening Medicine Master Buddha