Monks might be the craziest of all. When i was in Japan at age 23 I met a Buddhist monk who forever ruined my image of all religious monks/priests. I'm thinking of making this into a post actually since I still have the memories so vivid.....anyway, this buddhist monk went with me to a bar. When we got there, he turned his monastery symbol to face downwards. I asked him why he did this, and he said he didn't want to infect it. It was like he was sinning or something. Then he told me about the orgies that the nuns and monks in Japan had. I think this monk was trying to seduce me, but at that time I was completely oblivious to sexuality. I had no idea, but he seemed to be desiring me in some ways. Nothing happened, but it was then I realized that most humans are really incapable of restraining themselves, and indeed are just animals in disguise. There are some swamis I have found who have already lived a full life and now are truly more englightened.....but those are so rare.
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This is common everywhere but especially in Japan, the Buddhist temples are used primarily as funeral homes now and they are inherited by the son. Buddhism in Japan, the Monks are allowed to marry. There is a long history of Japan forcing Korean celabate monks to marry and killing them if they declined during the war between Korea and Japan. Korean Buddhism was taken over by the mafia when the Korean monastics asked them to kick the married monks out of their Buddhist temples after they won their independence from Japan. The mafia found being a monk was a cushy job and moved into Koream monasteries. My first teacher was a celabate Korean monk from the Seon tradition. He taught me about karma using the example of the Mafia and corruption of the Korean monastic institutions. Theravada Buddhist institutions have the same problem and so does Tibetan or Vajrayana. I don't know about Ch'an or Zen in China, but I bet they're having corruption issues too. It is Kalyuga, the dark ages of a cycle the world goes through. I've been lucky to have some of the best teachers, kind, honorable and master degrees in their area of study. The dynamics in religion play out in any institution or group....it's the way of samsara, we can educate ourselves, stop being naive like you've done and learn to be proactive, stop the spread of power grabbing psychopaths and their enablers before the take over and move their buddies in to our organization or group. Our government is an excellent example of psychopaths taking over and moving their buddies into top positions.