Romp Among The Flowers

During a consultation on Monday, a young client got very upset, “I kept telling my family to recite the Buddha’s name to eradicate their negative karma. Sometimes they listen, but most of the time they don’t!

I set up such a dignified-looking altar at home, but my elderly parents plainly refused to do any chanting and said it was not important to believe in the Buddha! Teacher, look at how stubborn my parents are! They have severe negative karma, thus they can’t listen to the Dharma!”

I replied, “Your home altar is indeed one of the most dignified-looking among those I have seen in these few years. Indeed when one closes one’s ears to the Dharma, his karmic obstructions are aplenty.”

I took a look at the client’s Bazi again.

“You patronize prostitutes before?

The client’s eyes widened, “Yes!”

“And it lasted for a good many years. You also went KTV to hug and fondle women?”

“Teacher, there’s bound to be such entertainment due to work…”

“You obviously enjoy it, so don’t act pathetic in front of me. Does your family know?”

“Of course not! My wife also doesn’t know!”

This is flouting the 7th offence from the Laws of the King of Hades: Roving among the Flowers – buying and selling of a sexual nature. The sexual misconduct sins of the eye, ear, mouth, body and mind have been committed.

And of course, the sin of false speech too.

Disregarding the health of your wife and indulging in promiscuous acts, and what happen if you infect your wife with a STD? This is letting your desires going to your head and losing your humanity.

Your forest of merits gets damaged, and one retribution of severe sexual misconduct is no one listens and believes you when you speak the Dharma.

You ravage in the flames of anger and suffer from anguish when the person you speaks to is the one you care most. And this is the most piercing pain you are inflicted with as a result of your misdeeds.

You may have stopped these misdeeds but you have yet to atone for your sins.

Thus as long as you sincerely repent:
All evil karma I did in the past,
Came from beginningless greed, anger,
and delusion,
And was made by my body, mouth and mind.
I now repent of it all and reform.

Confess each and every one of your sin in detail to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Do it soon and often till you see the repentance phenomena. Then perhaps you are still in time to salvage all the lost blessedness!

Repentance song: https://youtu.be/jpJo-kg7Qdk