“Buddhism is like salt. Salt is always salty. Whoever eats it will find that it’s always salty. Whoever doesn’t eat it won’t taste the saltiness. In the same way, Buddhism can’t degenerate. People degenerate. Buddhism doesn’t degenerate.
Some people see monks behaving in a bad way and they blame Buddhism.
It’s like a person who doesn’t eat salt and complains that salt isn’t salty. Actually, the saltiness of salt is there all the time. If anyone eats the salt, the saltiness will appear. That’s the way it is with Buddhism.”