Ven. Master Xue Wu 093 英文字幕 《Why is it superstitious? Emotion is the basis of religion.》李迪倫 2022
Channel: See Through and Let Go
Date: 17/01/2022

However, if we treat Buddhism as a religion, a dogmatic approach, we can never achieve Right Awakening which brings us towards the ultimate happiness (the state of cessation of sufferings, of life and death) and that means we cannot stop suffering because we are still lost. 

Religion itself, the nature of religious worshiping is being lost, call it superstitious in a way. Why is it superstitious? Emotion is the basis of religion.

In Chinese there's two words: emotion and sensibility (rational). Emotions in other words are called blind faith. Buddhism does not encourage blind faith, it encourages rational, clear, precise thinking.

Some religions use blind faith as a tight leash on its worshippers and the more devoted you are to that emotion, we call them, the more truly devoted, sincere worshipers. The more lost you are, the better it is. They are labeled as devoted and there is a leash so that you can’t escape.

43:16 If you look at other religions, there are a lot of evangelists that try to woo disciples into the… they asked part of that religion that used to be an evangelist approach. They use that mindset to get students and then there are cases where it's very well known: “if you don't believe in me, you go to hell.” They're part of that they always use that kind of approach, using a leash on the people. And all they want is something like devotion, praying to them all the time, you give some sort of sums of donations to them. This is a common problem among religions nowadays. “I'm real, you're fake, holier than thou.” But to be honest, at the end of the day, none of them knows what is happening, none of them solve the real problems, hence it's fake. 

Buddhism is never like that. Buddhism is not about followers, how many people come and follow me. Why? Because it's all about education. Education is about teachers and students, disciples and masters. There's a very important phrase:there's only disciples who seek answers from the master, never heard of a master who asks for a student to teach.