My visitors come from all walks of lives and many of them are non-magic believers. I welcome all as talking about magic alone would make me bored.
One day a lady dropped by and she identified herself as Lisa. She said that she had something to say about Tantric Buddhism after reading my blog. So, below is what she had to say:
"The Buddha abandoned his luxury live and led a very plain life and in poverty. His aim was to teach Buddhism and begged for food. Now the monks live a very comfortable and luxury life. They have spent of others donation and this is clearly in defiance to Buddha's original teaching.
Lamas asked poor people to support them with offerings of food and butter but they themselves don't work. This is really absurd.
The Buddha taught us that all sentient beings are equal but under the rule of theocracy, Tibet became the most unfair region in this world. Lamas taught people not to kill but they consume meat offered to them by butchers. Then those lamas continued to say that since people have killed, they are sinners. Then more offerings should be offered to the lamas and the statues as a means of repentance.
The social status of Tibetan women is very low. This is contrary to the Buddha's teaching of everyone is equal."
"I am intrigued and interested to know what you had to say about a true Buddhist then?" I asked.
Lisa said: "Simple. If the person is a sexist and he thinks a woman has more sins compared than man, then he is not a true Buddhist and he can never achieve enlightenment obviously."
After Lisa left, her view intrigued me quite a bit so I share her view out. For a long time, I thought the Mahayana Buddhism has deviated from true Buddha teaching quite considerably and Tantric Buddhism is completely not Buddhism altogether. It is Lisa and mine personal view of course.
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