Master Yi Fa, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Hawaii, explains that many believers expect that Buddhism will provide appropriate solutions to problems like family breakdowns, racial tension, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, and so on. Therefore the teachers relatively rarely discuss the testimony of the ancient holy men, and discuss more often the material related to contemporary American society and daily life.
依筏法師表示，由於很多信徒與追隨者都認為，佛教須對充滿各種「汙染」的美國社會，例如家庭破裂、種族糾紛、吸毒、青少年犯罪、精神疾病等問題，提出適切的解決答案，因此講道者，較少重述古代佛教聖人的例證；而比較多講和解決現代美國社會日常生活有關的內容。