When Venerable Ming Yi did merituous works, how many newspapers
and people praised him and regconize him?
And now, when he did mistakes regarding financial, newspaper
depict him like a liar and put him in bad spotlight, and of course
some people say bad things about him.
What a biased view of these people, influenced by what they see
and hear. They always forget about the virtues of others and just
focus on their mistakes.
And i personally dont think that he had personal corruption. If
you read carefully, it says he lend money to certain people and
organization, but there was never a mention about him himself
taking the money by himself. This is the key thing.
Next, they say he had a condo under his name. And people assume
that he owes the condo. But if you were to take another look, it
could be somebody whom he trusted setting him up? A monk also get
cheated too anyway.
But do you realise the opposite also holds true for some Buddhist?
When he appeared to be doing good work his 'fans' were praising him
and almost regarding him as a local representive of the Sanga. When
this controversy occurred some started saying what he did was not
against morals, he was framed, he was not at fault, we have no
rights no judge him, etc etc.
It's funny how we also forgot that we have no rights to judge
other people when it comes to criticising other religions because
we don't even understand their culture.
Everyone is bias in some way or another. It's just how you see
it.
