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What is Wrong with Buddhism (complete version)

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There's nothing wrong with Buddhism! What is wrong are the false teachings which are presented as Buddhism. 3000 copies of the first part of this video have been made for free distribution by one of our senior Theravada monks in Malaysia, Venerable Dhammavuddo. If you would like to support these You Tube videos or make a donation to my work, please go to the Donate button on my website at www.brianruhe.ca or the link on this You Tube channel. Donations via Bitcoin: 13GKJim3uGALqRn3mGNisvirw9DRSkiHhS The truth about Buddhism is exposed in a study of the history of how Buddhism split up into different sects. Much of it is anti-dharma, actually contradicting the Buddha. This video includes five later videos after 38:21 which is the end of the original "What is Wrong with Buddhism" video from May, 2012. This complete version adds vital history missed in the first one. "Enjoy" as it were... Seven months after posting the first video, I received these enthusiastic emails below from an American Mahayana Buddhist monk, Ven. Mui Ananda. Then, I got a phone call from an American Mahayana monk on the west coast and he is in favour of starting an association with me, of non partisan Buddhists to better reveal this historic truth about Buddhism. I had no idea that such support would come from Mahayanists! It's because "they're sick and tired and they're not going to take it anymore!" Ven. Mui Ananda Message: You are truly a teacher of authentic Buddhism. In 1971 I was ordained a monk in the Thai forest Tradition. I spent five years as a monk before I returned home to the United States, by way of Germany, the home of my parents. In the US I found no Theravada centers in the late 1970s. So I studied Zen and became ordained in Zen. Later I wandered, that is the correct term, into Pure Land Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. As time went on I became a fairly well established teacher in these areas of Mahayana and Vajrayana. I tried to filter the teachings of these schools through the Pali canon every time there seemed to be a conflict. This practice is discouraged in many of the schools. When there is a conflict the same reasoning was expressed, "Pali is for people not advanced enough to understand the full meaning of the Buddha." While skeptical of this reasoning I accepted it with a grain of salt. About ten years ago I began teaching Theravada Buddhism again. My Zen Master and I had a falling out over this. She was very bitter and I was told to leave her sangha. So I remained a Zen priest/monk afterwards, I was not attached to a specific temple but wandered to different centers throughout America I continued studies in Pure Land and Vajrayana. Over time I became agitated. I realized that I was not getting genuine teachings but only interpretations of teachings. Could it be, I wondered, that the majority of teachings I had been receiving were incorrect? I returned to the Pali Canon and Theravada and began teaching that exclusively. I tried to bridge the gaps between Mahayana and Theravada. In doing this I was no longer teaching Zen, Pure Land and Vajrayana. I was only pointing out inconsistency. It became impossible for me to faithfully teach the Mahayana any longer. After studying the Saddhammapatirupaka Sutta it became obvious what was happening in my life. It seems to me that I was being taught this counterfeit Dhamma and after years of hearing it was quite able to begin to believe it. It does sound like candy for the "soul" (whatever that means). Unfortunately, the US is inundated with these dubious teachings and teachers where money not Dhamma is important. You have convinced me of the need to continue teaching the Dhamma as Buddha taught it. Thank you so much. Mui Ananda sensei (Anagarika Ananda Abhaya) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am Brian Ruhe. For more information please do visit my website www.theravada.ca . My latest book "A SHORT WALK ON AN ANCIENT PATH - A Buddhist Exploration of Meditation, Karma and Rebirth", is available in book or ebook form at Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/Short-Walk-Ancient-Path-Exploration/dp/0968395120/ref=s... My first book from 1999, is "Freeing the Buddha," also at Amazon and it really lays the history bare from pages 380 - 392. I am also available to lead private and professional retreats, and to mentor on a one-to-one basis by Skype. You can call my Skype address at: BrianARuhe .