But what exactly do you follow, was my question. You cannot be following the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa salam, directly because he is dead.
To claim that you follow the Madhhab of the Prophet means you are the only and oldest surviving Sahabi. It also shows me that you don't understand this matter very well. The Sahaba, radiallhu anhum, had more right in following Rasulallah, salallahu alayhi wa salam, than you and I have, yet after his death it was the Madhhab of Abu Bakr, radiallahu anhu, that they had to follow and so on with the other three Khulafah until it came to the time of the Great Imams who formulated fiqh and all other sciences and of which to this day only 4 schools survived.
If you claim you follow Rasulallah, salallahu alayhi wa salam, through the Hadith, then again, it shows how little you understand the matter because if you turn to the Tafsir of Ibn Kathir, you are turning to the Shafi Madhhab, because he followed the Shafi Madhhab, and the same if you turn to the books of Hadith, Imam Bukhari and his student Imam Muslim were both following the Shafi Madhhab. So in a way whether you like it or not you cannot but follow one of the 4 surviving Madhhabs.
So I ask again, how are you following the Madhhab of Rasulallah, salallahu alayhi wa salam, if all the information that is available to us comes from someone who follows a Madhhab themselves?