Dilgo Khyentse on Malicious Criticism of Dharma Traditions
Malicious criticism of other traditions of dharma, in particular, is a major cause of the dharma as a whole declining and being corrupted. View all traditions and views as non-contradictory, and as true expressions of the Buddha’s teachings.
– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book "The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva"
frankk:
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Views like the one in the OP are the reason for the decline of True Dharma.
The lack of critical thinking, the lack of discernment, the gullible following gurus with wrong view are the cause.
It's worth noting that the Rinpoche reconfirmed Ösel Tendzin as Trungpa's successor, leading to one of the most disastrous sex scandals in US Buddhist history (Tendzin knowingly infected his students with AIDS, by having sex with them, including one alleged rape.) Perhaps a more critical, less simplistic approach to the views of Tendzin might have helped Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to prevent that.
Again, I say this without malice or other ill will.
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