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Chapter Fifteen: Entrusting 17
The Founding Master said, “In the past, religious orders, governments, or private organizations each relied on laws specifying disparities in order to regulate people. In the coming era, however, laws that are biased in any situation will not be able to exert their virtue to edify the masses equally. Therefore, in our order, if any person of the Way appears who has had a great enlightenment, that person should be honored with the status of the tathāgatas, whether lay or ordained, male or female, old or young. Also, in birthday and memorial ceremonies, or in any other events, rather than holding an event on behalf of a single individual, we should see to it that everyone should rejoice or mourn on the same day in those cases involving a founder of this order.”
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