From many sources had I learnt and that is not the only vcd that
I had watched.
The why became unimportant when the actions are obviously
misleading.
In fact if he is really a well-learned tipitaka monk, then he
should know that he cannot be ordained in the first place. As in
one of the vcd, he declared that he is sexually impotent and that
is one of the condition that doesn't allow a layman to be
ordained.
You think I'm conventional? Well that's you and I fully respect
what you think. But I think you're conventional too, because as you
were saying that I should have asked 'why do I think so', you have
failed to do it yourself. This is common among buddhist who think
they are right.
I think MCK is weird. His early writings are good, but as time gone
by, something definitely had gone wrong somewhere. This is how I
think.
We are buddhists, not monkists, we should not simply see some bald
man wearing a grey robe and quickly throw respect for no good
reason.
Respect the virtue and wisdom, not just the robe.
If MCK sincerely believes all religions from the same root (from
another vcd) then he should probably try to tell non-buddhists than
to confuse the already-confused buddhists.
Oh ya, to me, you're not true to your words. If you say I slander
(which I assume you think I have mistaken), shouldn't you think
it's time to live up to your sign-off message?
Hoho.
Talking about irony. And you call that 50 years of insight.
Remember, follow Buddha, not monk.
P/S: I didn't bother to reply the icchantika thread is because the
impression I had about you is that you are insisting that LS is the
cure as theorectical aspect, which to me, it's both theoritical and
applicable. As for Pureland Sect, well, I think they are easier to
attract people to believe in as people suffers in this Saha world
and often yearn for an external paradise. While in Lotus Sutra,
Sakyamuni Buddha revealed that this Saha world is the pureland, and
this is what made me truly respect Buddha. And this is besides the
academic and scholar point of view that all Mahayana Sutras are not
preached by Buddha Himself. But LS's spirit is the spirit to live
the here and now, even the yearning of after/future lives, one is
to be coming back here for one's own cultivation and practice the
bodhisattva path. Not running to somewhere else. But of course, few
people would understand, lesser would believe in, and much lesser
would people vow to undertake the Lotus Sutra.
