現在末法時代，白衣居然也受人的供養， 也來弘揚佛法。所謂白衣就是在家人， 在家人也居然給人念經， 給人超渡， 向人家去收錢，指佛穿衣， 賴佛吃飯。 可是他不能出家， 騙財騙色， 到處都是， 在家人就想取代出家人，就藉著出家人來賣廣告，來招徠，就像做生意似的。
這麼一來，一些無知的在家人就「 哦！這個大德都來了， 我們這些小德趕快去隨喜功德。 」 啊， 想不到這裡邊是一個陷阱， 就是斂財呢！那個在家人巧用出家人， 就用出家人來做招牌， 實際上在佛教裡頭做佛教的神棍、 騙子， 這到處都是 ，不知有多少這樣的人，那麼我也最討厭這一類指佛穿衣、賴佛吃飯的人。啊，他居然就能給人超渡了，誰超渡他自己呢？不要說在家人，出家人盡給人家趕經懺、超渡亡魂賺錢，這都是有問題的。
所以 說「地獄門前僧道多」，都是這一類趕經懺的，給人家放焰口的。我這一生我不參加趕經懺、放焰口，又什麼打水陸，我都不願參加這個工作，因為我沒有德行，我道不足以感人，德不足以化人，自己還沒超渡好自己，怎麼去超渡亡魂？所以我是沒有那麼大的膽量。現在在家人居然就給人念念經，完了就說有甚麼靈感，見到鬼魂，鬼現身了，又是見到觀音了，就見神見鬼的這一套。
這是 佛教裡頭的蟲子，佛教裡頭的敗類。我不怕人不高興我，我到什麼地方，我都是這樣說的，我是講真理的。你以前見我是盡罵人，現在還是這樣子，沒改變。若這樣一來，將來出家人就都沒有了，誰也不做出家人了，就都做在家人，吃喝玩樂爲所欲爲，又可以賺錢，又可以超渡，就替出家人做代表了，這何樂而不爲，所以也沒有人出家了，這就是法已經亡了。法賴僧傳，在家人有什麼資格來幫人超渡呢！我真不明白。
現在不要說旁的地方，臺灣就是這樣子。這個取一個這個怪名字，那個就取一個那個怪名字，是很盛的，弄得會員不是一百萬，就是八十萬，再不就是五十萬、六十萬，最少的也幾千。你看出家人辦的佛敎會，反而沒有什麼人參加佛敎會的會員了，都跑到在家人那兒去了，你說這叫什麼佛敎！有的男居士，就有不知多少年紀輕輕女的，都是跟著他，就說：「老師你若出家，我們就都跟著你出家；你若不出家，我們大家都不出家。」
你看這個一幫一幫的，一墮落就是一幫，這多可怕！你男女爲什麼就黏得這麼厲害，大家都說爲法，若眞懂佛法是這樣子嗎？眞懂佛法，都要修遠離行的，怎麼會一大幫女人跟著，這叫幹什麼！若這樣是佛敎徒，那眞是末法了。 |
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In this Dharma Ending Age, who would have thought that the laity would also receive offerings and propagate the Dharma? But all the same, there are lay people who recite Sutras and perform ceremonies to cross over living beings, and then take money for their work. They rely on Buddhism for the clothes they wear and the food they eat, yet they have not left the home- life. They cheat people to get money and sex. So now we find many lay people everywhere trying to replace left-home people. They take advantage of the Sangha to solicit people, just like a businessman who seduces customers into purchasing his products.
In this case, some ignorant lay people are fooled and think "Ah! such and such a Great Virtuous One has been here! You should hurry and joyfully support this merit and virtue!" Ah! they didn't suspect that it was a trap to collect a great fortune. The trickster simply uses the left-home person's name as bait; he is actually a marvelous impostor. There are such people everywhere. I despise most this kind of person who abuses the good name of Buddhism. Ah! miraculously, he can take people across? Who is going to cross him over? Since it is still a question whether or not left-home people who hustle ceremonies and repentances for a living can achieve their goal, how much the more is it a question for the lay people!
That's why the saying goes, "Most of the crowd standing by the gates to the hells, are Buddhist monks and Taoists. " And this is talking about the Sangha members who specialize in conducting repentance ceremonies, "liberating flaming mouth" ceremonies and the "Water, Land, and Air" Dharma Assembly. In this life I have never taken part in this kind of work because I don't have enough virtue. My cultivation is not enough to transform people; my virtue is insufficient to influence them. I have not rescued myself yet, how can I cross ghosts over? Therefore, I am not that audacious. Lay people these days, much to my surprise, will recite Sutras and transfer the merit and virtue to the spirits of ancestors. They tell people afterwards that they got such and such response, that they had seen ghosts or Gwan Yin Bodhisattva, and they talk psychic stuff and nonsense.
Such people are parasites; they are rotten dregs in Buddhism. I am not afraid that people will be unhappy with me. Wherever I go I make the same comments and what I say is the Truth. You have seen me scolding people in the past, and now I have not changed. If things continue this way, there won't be any Sangha in the future. Nobody will leave home but they will all stay home and lead a dissipated and dissolute life. Since they can make money as well as cross over the deceased, they can replace all the left- home people, who wouldn't be happy? When there are no more left-home people this will be the Dharma's end. Since the Dharma is propagated by the Sangha, what makes the lay people qualified to cross over living beings? I really don't understand.
Let's just take Taiwan for instance. It has become very popular for this organization to adopt a really strange name, and that group to take another weird name. And the members come around and join up, maybe a million, or eight hundred thousand, or fifty thousand, or sixty thousand, at the very least there will be several thousand members. But the Buddhist Association established by left-home people has very few members; they have all gone to join the laity. What kind of Buddhism is this? In these organizations, the young male teacher will have a lot of young women who follow him. These women say, "Teacher, if you leave the home life, we will leave home, too. But if you stay home, then we won't leave home either."
When such a big group of people falls, they will all fall together in a great multitude; isn't it terrible? Why would men and women attach to each other so closely? Everyone says he/she is cultivating for the Dharma. If you really understand the Dharma then how could this happen? One who understands will practice keeping his distance. Why would he want a whole bunch of women around him, anyway? What is the purpose of that? If they can be called Buddhists, then we have really reached the Dharma Ending Age! |
