<佛教的品牌標語> 「你是你自己的主人」
我不覺得我們應該說「做一個佛教徒意味著做一位好人」,沒有人在乎做人的好壞與否。實際上,我認為佛教的品牌標語應該是佛陀所說的“རང་ཉིད་རང་གི་མགོན་ཡིན་གྱི། །གཞན་ནི་སུ་ཞིག་མགོན་དུ་འགྱུར། ([Wylie:] rang nyid rang gi mgon yin gyi / / gzhan ni su zhig mgon du ‘gyur)”, 中文就是「你是你自己的主人」。佛法的八萬四千法門全部都是教你如何能夠掌控自己,成為自己的主人。
<Buddhist branding> “You are your own master, no one [else] is.”
I don’t think we should say things like, “To be a Buddhist means to be a good human.” Nobody cares about being good. So actually, I think the Buddhist branding should be རང་ཉིད་རང་གི་མགོན་ཡིན་གྱི། །གཞན་ནི་སུ་ཞིག་མགོན་དུ་འགྱུར། ([Wylie:] rang nyid rang gi mgon yin gyi / / gzhan ni su zhig mgon du ‘gyur). This is what Buddha said: “You are your own master, no one [else] is.” (Often it’s translated literally as “You are your own guardian. Who else could be your guardian?”) Buddhadharma, the whole of 84000, is all pointing toward giving you control of yourself.