No it was/is NOT our intention, as you would know if you had clearly read the post where Geshe-la explained his reasons to openly voice our concerns on the DL's stance on the Dorje Shugden issue. (Unless you choose not to believe this) And you are free to feel or believe that Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is not a real Guru as you just pointed out, but then again would this also not go against the policies of this website ?? It is becoming clear to me that those who follow this big picture idea can speak freely and criticize other Lama's but those who doubt the DL may not do so.
PS Personally I don't really mind what people think, everyone is free to think what they want, it's just the inconsistencies on the whole harmony policy that I find odd.
Sometimes our actions have some effects that we did not intend for them to have.
I consider Geshe Kelsang Gyatso as a great lama, and the Dalai Lama also.
My own Guru has great reverence for both, and that means something to me.
Eventually, the reality is not as simple as one side pro-Shugden, the other anti-Shugden or one side pro-Dalai Lama and the other anti-Dalai Lama, or to complicate the matter, on side pro-Shugden but anti-Dalai Lama and the other pro-Shugden but also pro-Dalai Lama...
(where does this end?)
When some do resort to very direct methods, such as demonstrating in the streets with slogans asking the Dalai Lama to stop lying, then they should also take reponsibility to clarify with the same strength that the intentions are not to put down the Dalai Lama, but to voice concern and expose the truth about the ban and about Dorje Shugden.
We can't throw a bolster in the mud to attract attention and then not use the attention we have to go all the way.
By all the way I mean to make it clear that it is not a campaign against the Dalai Lama, but a campaign to correct the perception created in the minds of many as to who Dorje Shugden is and as to what his intentions are, a campaign that is requesting for the Dalai Lama to lift the ban. A campaign that has for objectif to create harmony and is done with respect towards the Sangha (thus including His Holiness), not diffamation.
The point of the demonstration, I believe, was not to put the Dalai Lama down.
Yet, there are many who come across images of the demonstrations and who do not understand that, and some will develop doubts, doubts in the Dalai Lama, doubt in monkhood also, even doubts in Buddhism.
This needs, I think, to be corrected; and, I think, it would be much better if it was corrected by those that created the mis-conception.
I say this with deep respect for the great lamas, with deep respect for Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and deep respect for His Holiness also. I have a Guru too, and one thing I have learned, is that there is more than meet the eyes when we receive instructions from our Guru.
I'll be very blunt here, but I think it is too easy to throw the bolster in the mud and then use Guru devotion to justify our act. If our Guru has asked us to throw the bolster in the mud in the first place, maybe there was more to His intention, and how we deal with the created situation afterwards may very well be the real practice, not the throwing itself.
This is not a critic to Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, no, I would not dare to even let my mind think anything ill about Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, not to mention my speech.
And I do not believe that the post by Beggar was directed at Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
So, yes, there can be different methods, some appearing more peaceful than others, but let's take responsibility for the consequences of our actions. I think this is a real Dharma practice.
I also think we should remember that patience is a virtue and also not forget that the result we want to achive is not to put Lamas down or create doubts in people's minds, but restore and propitiate Nagarjuna's view. Let's not get distracted.
