Teacher CAI HE-QING
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Five Desires: In Volume 7 of Collection of Scriptures, Bhagava Bhikkhu Gaoju said
That women have five desires: “
1. The desire to be born in a wealthy family;
2. The desire to be married with a wealthy man;
3. The desire that the husband can obey her and fulfill all of her wishes;
4. The desire to have many children;
5. The desire to have power in the family.“
The Eight Aspects: In Dhammapada, Udayana said: “Seductive and alluring women have eighty-four ugly aspects, within eight major categories, thereby disgusting the wise. What are they?
1. Jealousy
2. Anguish
3. Rebuke
4. Curse
5. Hatred
6. Greed
7. Vanity
8. Malevolence
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The Ten Evils: In Sujata Sutra, the Buddha told Sujata: “Normal women have ten penances since their birth. What are they?
1. Parents are not joyous when women are born.
2. Women are cast low in their upbringing.
3. Women are inherently cowardice and afraid of strange people.
4. Parents are always worried about marriage of women.
5. Women must leave their natural parents after marriage.
6. Women live in the husband’s shadow; when the husband is happy, they are happy, when the husband is unhappy, they begin to fear.
7. They must endure great pain when delivery.
8. Women are restricted since their childhood.
9. Women are contained by their husbands as wives.
10. Women are detested by their grandchildren in old age.
Women are not free from their birth to death. Yet normal women treat these sufferings as happiness without the awareness of their own situation.“
The Eighty-Four Gestures: In Sujata Sutra, the Buddha told Sujata: “ Good looking is not the true beauty. Only the face cleansed of eighty-four ugly aspects can have the true beauty.”The Buddha said that the alluring attitudes of women are corruptive.
They have eighty-four gestures to delude themselves and others. Such gestures are evil.
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From Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī Bhikkuni Sutra, the Buddha told Ananda:
“The eighty-four aspects of women can delude themselves and others on mental or attitude perspectives. They make people fail to follow the path of samma.“
The Buddha explained the various gestures of women in details, including: Fixing their eyebrows, Dressing themselves up; Combing their hair, Fiddling with the hairs in forehead; Putting on makeup, Deluding their husbands; Being a high maintenance housewife, Squinting; Applying lipstick; Wearing earrings; Wearing necklaces, jewelries, braces, and other trinkets; Loving all extravagant clothing; And wearing socks, Showcasing their curves; Swinging their two arms when walking, Making deliberate gestures, Attracting others’ attention; Leering others, Enhancing their enchantment; Glimpsing other’s privacy; And so on.
In the Pratītyasamutpāda Sutra, “an arhat, with his heavenly vision, saw many women fallen into the hell. He asked the Buddha: “Why?” The Buddha said: “For four causes”:
First, their greed towards luxuries;
Second, their jealousy towards each other;
Third, their loquacity;
And fourth, their lusty gestures (obscene forms).
That is why many of them fell to hell!””
... In Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī Bhikkuni Sutra, the Buddha also told Ananda that if they can improve their bad habits, destroying the gestures one by one, then they can only crave for the connection, the path, and the Buddha. By such, they can reap the results as an arhat.
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In Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, the Buddha said that by becoming close to knowledge, listening to the dharma, understanding the truth, and practicing the dharma, then mahā-puruṣa lakṣaṇa (physical characteristics of the Buddha) can be achieved.
If women can achieve that, then they can gain such characteristics as well.
If men cannot achieve that, they cannot be said to have such characteristics.
Why? They seem to have such characteristics on the outside, but they act no better than animals and so they possess no wisdom!
Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra says that the only difference between men and women lies in “whether or not they can know the Buddha.” The Buddha said: “ If one does not know the Buddha, then they are not men because they fail to know that they can know the Buddha. If one is unable to know the Buddha, then they are women. If one is aware of that Buddha can be known, then he gains the mahā-puruṣa lakṣaṇa.
If a woman can know that she has mahā-puruṣa lakṣaṇa, then that woman should be a man.“
So the gender equality in the dharma refers to the equality in the Buddha. Śūraṃgama-samādhi-sūtra says: “ Once bodhicitta (enlightened mind) emerges, the differences of men and women can be surpassed because the mind of Buddha does not contain such differences.”
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In Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, the Buddha said that good men and good women all hope to be men. Why? Because women are the evils incarnate. Just as a hundred rivers flow into the sea and the sea is not full, the women are not satisfied and full of everything.
If everything becomes a man, that cannot satisfy a woman’s desires either.
He also said: “So we must always berate those with women’s characteristics, making them hope to become men.”The Buddha insisted: “Because mahā-puruṣa lakṣaṇa is the Buddha’s characteristics!”
The Buddha said: “Women intend to be harsh, envious, flattering, and greedy. If one can be withdrawn from all the failures of women, acting as a man does, gaining as a man does, a man I should call to that woman!”Though in a woman’s body, if one can eradicate a woman’s habits and walk towards the great deeds of becoming Buddha, that woman shall be a man!
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Translated by華頓翻譯社
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