Enlightenment By Living Buddha Sheng-yen
Lu This was translated from Grandmaster Lu's 200th book, 開悟一片片. CHAPTER 3 - The Evil of Sexual Misconduct In a previous chapter, "Direct Dissection", I mentioned an arrogant person who claimed to have achieved enlightenment. Why am I certain that he did not achieve enlightenment? I only need to base my observation on one of his statement. I knew immediately, he didn't achieve enlightenment. He claimed that Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism is a corrupted faith that promotes sexual misconduct. Just based on that statement alone, I am certain that he fundamentally does not know what enlightenment is. Listen to my direct analysis. In the wisdom eyes of enlightened being, there is no thought of good nor evil, it is to depart from the two extremes. By accusing Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism to be a corrupted faith that promotes sexual misconduct, you have fallen on one side of the extreme (showed your hands). You definitely are not an enlightened cultivator. You fundamentally do not understand what enlightenment is. You got a long way to go. I laughed at your statement to the point that my teeth were about to fall off! I would tell you. In the Three Turning of the Dharma Wheel by the Buddha, the ultimate truth was only revealed in the Third Turning of the Dharma Wheel. I would tell you that when Buddha was about to enter nirvana, Manjushri Bodhisattva beseeched the Buddha: Manjushri pleaded: "Beseech the Buddha to abide in the world to continue to teach dharma. Implore the Buddha to turn the dharma wheel once again." The Buddha replied, "Manjushri, you are a great wise being. I have never taught any Dharma nor have I turn the Dharma Wheel. Even you did not realize that?" Only then did Manjushri Bodhisattva come to his senses and realized the true essence of what the Buddha had taught. Now, let me ask you. Did Buddha give dharma teaching? Did Buddha turn the dharma wheel? If you say, yes, I will knock you on your head with a vajra. Did you lose your mind? Didn’t you profess to be enlightened? You have just slandered the Buddha. Now let's talk about your claim that Tibetan Vajrayana is a corrupted faith that promotes sexual misconduct. In the real world, only monks, priests, nuns who haven taken the vow of celibacy/chastity abstain from sex. Every living being in this world come about as result of sexual desire. Not just animals, even plants, they are conceived through cross-pollination. Is sexual desire evil? If sexual desire is deviant, then everyone is deviant and everyone is evil. You came about as result of the expression of your parents' sexual desire. Can you guarantee that your parents' expression of their sexual desire was "proper"? In the eyes of mundane people, there is no such thing as proper sexual conduct or misconduct. They see them all as sexual conducts. Is sexual conduct necessarily evil? May I remind you that all living beings arise from sexual reproduction. I said, Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism transforms the sexual desire into visualization, mantra chanting, and mudra. Transform sexual desire into a method of cultivation. Teaching sentient beings even sexual desire can be use as a mean for cultivation. (Practitioners must abide by Differentiated Rules of Liberation). This cultivation is not what you imagined, not the perverse acts that you were thinking. Don't put your mind in the gutter. Don't let your mind be deviant and evil. There are very few people who are qualified to perform this kind of cultivation (They must already achieved accomplishment in the cultivation of prana, channel, and drops). I believe that you have deviant thoughts in your mind. Hence, you claimed that Tibetan Vajrayana is a corrupted faith that is evil and promotes sexual misconduct. I tell you, Vajrayana teachings will expand your vision, so it becomes infinite. But, you don't even qualify to cultivate Vajrayana teachings. Sorry, you really don't qualify. You are dirty. You don't even know what innate purity is. How can you be considered as enlightened? I tell you, you don't even know what it means by "No purity and no impurity"! Through having no attainment Last edited September 14, 2008 |
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