I would like to share this well written article by Neil Elliott with my Shugden friends. Neil Elliott writes about how the Dalai Lama and CTA have corrupted the innocent minds of good people through their false propaganda and trusting and unsuspecting people fall prey to a charismatic religious leader. Such are the crimes of the Tibetan leadership in conning the world at large.
Neil Elliott
Who corrupted the minds of all these good people?
The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) recently published a statement purporting to come from a group of Italian Buddhist Centres and dutifully signed by them, but which clearly came originally from the Dalai Lama and the CTA.
There was nothing new in the statement, just the same old tired narrative of baseless accusations and thinly veiled threats against those who rely upon Buddha Dorje Shugden.
When you read a document like this, the question that comes to mind is: 'How can those who do not rely upon Buddha Dorje Shugden possibly know his true nature and function?'
From where do they get the 'information' they so confidently present as fact?
From the Dalai Lama of course.
But why should they believe what he says? According to his own version of events, for years he made the 'mistake' of worshipping a 'malevolent spirit' thinking he was an enlightened being. Then he did some 'research' and discovered it was a 'mistake'!
Let's get this straight. 'His Holiness the reincarnation of the XIII Dalai Lama', a 'fully enlightened being who is an incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion' couldn't tell the difference between a malevolent spirit and an enlightened being!
Believe that and you'll believe anything.
Knock on the door
On the face of it, it would seem that many do. But if the truth be told the vast majority who fall in behind the Dalai Lama neither understand nor have any conviction in what they are saying.
Many in the Tibetan community have been cowered into denouncing the Deity they worship by witnessing the cruel retribution inflicted on those who refuse.
Cowered by the ruthless abuse of power by the Dalai Lama whose decision to abandon his Spiritual Guide and Protector was driven entirely by political considerations and had nothing to do with religion.
When the Dalai Lama publicly, from a teaching throne, commanded his subjects to recant their faith or face a 'knock on the door' from his henchmen, most reluctantly chose to recant.
But there is much evidence to indicate that although they are prevented from making any public show of their faith, deep in their hearts many of them are still devoted to Buddha Dorje Shugden. Their psychological torment is almost unimaginable, and only those who have suffered religious persecution themselves can truly feel their pain.
Corrupting innocent minds
Perhaps it is understandable that Tibetans, who in almost every respect depend upon the CTA and therefore the Dalai Lama for their livelihood, should allow themselves to be bullied into publicly recanting.
But why on earth do people outside of the Tibetan community buy into the Dalai Lama's warped views and slavishly promulgate them as if they know what they are talking about, when clearly they do not?
Why do those who live in modern democratic societies readily suspend their critical judgement, believe unquestioningly what they are told to believe, and agree to take part in what is effectively a medieval witch hunt?
Who used his celebrity status to corrupt the minds of these good people? Who turned them against their fellow Buddhists and encouraged them to ban from their centres and events anyone he disapproves of?
The Dalai Lama, of course.
And what was the reason he gave for creating such a deep sectarian divide in the international Buddhist community?
That the followers of Dorje Shugden encourage sectarianism!
Unscrupulous propaganda
It beggars belief until you look closely at the methods being used here. To commit an iniquitous action and then deflect public scrutiny by accusing your victims of doing that very thing is a well known propaganda technique used by dictators and oppressive regimes throughout history to dupe whole populations of well-meaning people. And sadly, the more brazen you are, the bigger the lie, the more effective it is!
The Dalai Lama, of course, benefits from a massive propaganda machine financed originally by the CIA and now by the exorbitant fees he commands for his public appearances. This corrupt, self-serving entity thinks nothing of using unscrupulous techniques such as disinformation, crude innuendo, or even bare faced lies to maintain its grip on power and continue to rake in vast sums of money from honest well-meaning people they have duped.
Compared to this massive web of corruption, the meagre resources of those he is out to destroy would seem to count for very little in the public eye.
Except they possess one thing the Dalai Lama and his cronies entirely lack - the truth!
And in the end the truth will out.
No matter how shiny an apple might appear on the outside, if it is rotten inside sooner or later the rot will become visible. Then no one will choose to buy it.