I don't buy any of the arguments given here. There's a lot of "blind" faith talk here and no real logical reasoning.
The problem is that, while attacking wholesale every statement on this thread as lacking ”real logical reasoning”, you lacked the honesty, or maybe the balls, to identify such statements, and why they would lack any ”real logical reasoning”.
Everything is about how one perceive Buddha and if one perceive HHTDL to be a Buddha. Perception, perception. We can argue till kingdom come but it still boils down to how one "choose" to perceive a Lama. What is the truth?
Your view is the well known non-Buddhist, nihilistic view that there is no reality to be uncovered through investigation and analysis. Reality, in your view, is optional; anything goes as long as you ”choose” it. There is no dependent arising, no cause and result, and no reliable knowledge such as direct perception or inference.
Besides, you attack others for their supposed lack of ”real logical reasoning”, just to be caught with pants down only two lines later, rather illogically implying that a ”real logical reasoning” is not possible at all.
As ALL of us are supposedly in samsara, we are all subject to wrong views and perceptions. So no two person can perceive the same truth.
Wrong. Direct perception and inference are reliable knowledge, and are within the reach of samsaric beings. If samsaric beings could not perceive the same truths, there would be no right view, no path, and no result.
Besides, according to your own mistaken assumption that all views and perceptions of samsaric beings are wrong, your own statement would be itself a wrong view, which by the way happens to be exactly the case.
Your truth will always be different from my truth....and yet we constantly wants to argue our truth is the caoorect one.
Some people constantly argue, but are unable to settle their views, because they argue on the basis of, and are attached to, self-contradictory assumptions, such as those stated by you.
Another factor preventing a fruitful discussion is wholesale attacking the views of everyone else, but not specifying what you believe is wrong with them, and why. Honesty is therefore essential.
It's just your perceptions. Everything is just a matter of who's better at convincing people.
If so, your own view that ”it's just your perceptions” is itself just your own perception, and thus lacks any reliability or authoritativeness. But, since you claim this view to be reliable or authoritative, you obviously cannot convince anyone of such a self-contradictory garbage.
Your nihilistic, non-Buddhist, and self-contradictory belief that there is no right view, and that everything boils down to rhetoric skills, is also well known in the West since the Greeks as the fallacious, deceptive view of the Sophists, as they were described by Plato.
The is no right or wrong view about HHTDL.
Which means, for you anything goes. There is no karma, no dependent arising, no right view, no right conduct, no skillful or unskillful actions, and no result of actions. To kill is OK, to lie is OK, to steal is OK, to rape is OK, as long as it is convenient to you. This means that you lack refuge vows, and therefore that you are a non-Buddhist.
Only He knows what is His true motivation.
From your biblical capitalizations (”He”, ”His”), it is clear that your nihilistic, non-Buddhist views brought you to believe in the divinity of the evil dalai, much as Jews believe in the divinity of their evildoing ”god”.
Maybe one reason why dalaism is so successful in the West is that many people, like you, are just looking for a fanciful, Shangri-la way of keeping their old Jewish-Christian patterns, such as divinizing evil.
The rest is just up to every individual to decide for themselves what view they choose to accept as most convincing or convenient to them.
Of course. Everyone can choose to a be a Buddhist or, as in your case, to be a non-Buddhist, or even a transvestite of Buddhist.