“If even a good monk sees someone destroying the teaching and disregards him, failing to reproach him . . .” If you have no qualms about the word “disregard,” then all may be fine for you at present, but you may be certain that later you will fall into the hell of incessant suffering!
That is why the Great Teacher Nan-yüeh in his Four Peaceful Practices states: “If there should be a bodhisattva who protects evil persons and fails to chastise them, thereby prolonging evil, bringing distress to good people, and destroying the correct teaching, then such a person is no true bodhisattva. Before others he puts a lying face upon his behavior, always insisting that ‘I am practicing the virtue of forbearance!’ But when his life comes to an end, he will fall into hell along with those evil persons.”
And the Ten Kinds of Wheels Sutra says: “If there are slanderers of the Law, one should not dwell with them nor draw near them. If one draws near them and dwells with them, one will be bound for the Avīchi* hell.”
*Hell of incessant suffering. Unlike Christian hell, one who slanders the Lotus Sutra will, after countless lifetimes, eventually attain Buddhahood thanks to the so-called Poison Drum relationship. Buddhist hell plays out in this Saha world, born again and again, for example, as miscarried fetuses, as reviled centipedes, as tortured souls hated by men, women, and children, and those with the most painful incurable diseases.
*Hell of incessant suffering. Unlike Christian hell, one who slanders the Lotus Sutra will, after countless lifetimes, eventually attain Buddhahood thanks to the so-called Poison Drum relationship. Buddhist hell plays out in this Saha world, born again and again, for example, as miscarried fetuses, as reviled centipedes, as tortured souls hated by men, women, and children, and those with the most painful incurable diseases.
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