Are Mahayana Buddhist scriptures false?

 Since the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures were established after the death of Buddha, are they false sutras?


It is true that the Buddha, as a historical entity, did not preach them.


So who preached them? It was the usual


"guided by love and compassion."


Someone.


Oh, love is God. And Buddha is compassion. So in Buddhism it was "guided by compassion."


The Mahayana Buddhist scriptures were preached after the death of Buddha "guided by compassion," but Buddha is compassion, so it was Buddha who preached them.


The original Buddhist scriptures show the way to enlightenment, and to get there you have to become a monk and practice. Then you finally attain enlightenment and become a Buddha.


However, that is not the end.


Once you become a Buddha, it is impossible to look at people who cannot become a monk or practice, and therefore cannot become a Buddha, and do nothing. Inevitably, they return to this world to save those who cannot be saved. They have no choice but to preach the law to turn those who cannot become Buddhas into Buddhas.


In the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, the scope of Buddhahood expands from monks to laypeople, and eventually it is even preached that


"everyone can become a Buddha."


If Buddha is compassion,


"he had to preach this."


If one follows the guidance of compassion, he had to preach this, he had no choice but to preach this.


I think I wrote before that


"If you pray, God, Buddha, will surely listen and teach you the path to follow."


People who attained enlightenment through the original Buddhist scriptures also prayed to Buddha.


"Please save all those who have not yet attained enlightenment."


And if you pray, Buddha will surely answer. And he will teach you the path to follow.


Once a new teaching is given, it resonates with the previous teachings, deepens them, and new teachings are born. This cycle is the same as the pattern I wrote about in my previous article, "What happens when two true religions meet?" After the death of the Buddha, the teachings preached by the enlightened person "guided by compassion" resonated with the faith of the monks and believers around him, and became a new "Buddhist scripture." And the circle of salvation spread. Then, by "resonating and deepening" with the previous teachings, the next new "Buddhist scripture" was preached by compassion. In this way, the circle of salvation spreads more and more, and the circle of salvation spreads to everyone. "All people become Buddhas." I think we have reached this point. By the way, even among the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, there are sometimes those that are considered "false sutras." I think that is because the teachings that someone claimed to have preached "guided by compassion" did not "resonate" with the people around them. I believe that this is how true scriptures were selected even among the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures.


However, this does not mean that the original Buddhist scriptures are already old, or that only the final teachings are meaningful. I would like to consider this next.

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