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After the
joint statement of our publishing companies was published in
newspapers, we received today from the Office of H.H. Dorje
Chang Buddha III a letter containing a short discourse given
by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III about this matter. We now
make public this letter that we received.
World
Buddhism Publishing
World Dharma
Voice Inc.
July 5, 2008
The content
of that letter is as follows:
To World
Buddhism Publishing and World Dharma Voice Inc.:
After reading your statement, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
specially instructed our office to pass on to you the view
of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III:
“First of all, I
thank you for publishing the humble book H.H. Dorje Chang
Buddha III in order to benefit living beings. I hope
that book will add to the blessings and wisdom of living
beings and will help them attain liberation. Additionally,
there is something that needs to be discussed. I do not know
whether you will consider the following. Your publishing
companies are planning to take legal action against those
ignorant and confused people who harm the true dharma of
Buddhism. This definitely is your right, and I will not
intervene. However, I hope that the goal of your legal
action is to edify those confused people so that they will
leave suffering and attain happiness. Thus, can you change
your mentality of wanting to ‘discredit them
thoroughly…and…bankrupt them’ to a mentality that wants them
to ‘awaken to right understanding, have increased blessings
and wisdom, hear the true dharma soon, and realize
enlightenment’? Even when King Kalinga was dismembering an
earlier incarnation of Sakyumuni Buddha, the Buddha remained
unattached. Instead, the Buddha gave rise to the great
compassion of enlightenment. I hope that my teaching on
‘What Is Cultivation?’ will be of benefit to you.”
Wishing you peace in the dharma!
Office of
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
July 4, 2008
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