You can be a Buddhist among the Catholics, and I will be a Catholic among the Buddhists. Once the two of us are able to communicate, there won't be any more sectarian views, conflict, or boundaries. If we can do this, all the wars in the world will come to an end, and people won't exclude each other anymore.
		In consonance with his vision of the Dharma Realm, the Master often said that Buddhism was too limiting a label for the Buddha's teaching and often referred to it as the teaching of living beings. Just as he criticized sectarianism within Buddhism as opposing the true spirit of the Dharma, he felt that people should not be attached to interreligious distinctions either, that it was important for people of all religions to learn from the strengths of each religious tradition. To make that vision a reality, he invited his good friend Paul Cardinal Yubin, the Catholic cardinal of Taiwan, to join him in establishing a World Religions Center at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas and to be its first director. He suggested that the cardinal be a "Buddhist among the Catholics" and that he himself would be a "Catholic among the Buddhists." Unfortunately the cardinal's untimely death delayed the plans for the Center, which eventually opened in Berkeley as the Institute for World Religions in 1994.
			Mutual exchange between the northern and southern (Mahayana and Theravada) traditions of Buddhism.
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