Once during a teaching I was giving, a man asked me what I thought of Jesus, and when I said Jesus was a noble bodhisattva, the man got angry. He thought that I was denigrating Jesus because I called him a bodhisattva instead of a buddha. I thought that I was praising Jesus, but the man did not. This shows that praise and criticism are only conceptual projections, and they do not truly exist. Praise and criticism are equality.
Spoken December 5, 1998.
Translated by Ari Goldfield
