The Buddha criticized the lavish religious, avaricious.

            

Today is also the reverence, fame, pride, be respected, but is from the use of high-end vehicles, expensive, ostentatious luxury, wealth, rather than people. 

Avaricious old days, lavish Buddhist monk who just received the offerings outperformed the other monks, from which, there is a reverence, fame, respect, pride.

Today is also the reverence, fame, pride, be respected, but is from the use of high-end vehicles, expensive, ostentatious luxury, wealth, rather than people. Since then, the avaricious monks feel pride for fame, beyond the people so lavish lifestyle, bringing avaricious.

In the Samyutta Nikaya, the Buddha has repeatedly criticized the monks cases avaricious, conceited because of fame, due reverence from avaricious bring. There are a bunch of talk about this.

Here, we introduce a selection of the most typical of the problems mentioned above, in which the Buddha strong criticism (1).

But the avaricious to acquire the reverence, fame, the respect, self-generated high conceit of expression, in the era of two different, but the basics are the same: There is a more the physical conditions may be the quantity and quality may be, ostentatious, arrogant about it, belittle those who do not have the fellow as yourself.

Strong criticism of the Buddha shown in the example that he uses. Distribution is such avaricious. The acquisition coincides avaricious as food distribution, the Buddha called it "ignorant" avaricious acquisition reverently, fame, things that are dominant will "bring misfortune, long suffering".

Below is the full text of all "central".

At Savatthi

- Suffering and suffering, and the monks, the benefit obtained, reverently, fame, truth is bitter, evil, the legal obstacles to attain supreme peace, from the yoke of suffering.

As, monks, a central, distributed food, full of feces, filled with feces, and in front of a large pile.

It despises the other central figure and said: "I eat feces, full of feces, filled with feces, and before me, this is big shit."

Also, the monks, here, have taken advantage of favorable Monks, reverently, fame dominates the mind occupied, robed in the morning, he took the bowl, in the village or town for alms real. He now has no adequate diet, was invited back tomorrow, and he's begging bowl is filled.

He went to the garden (monasteries) and monks among them boast as follows: "I have no enough food, invited back tomorrow, and my bowl is full. Items I received such as robes, alms food, is ready, pharmaceutical healing. But the other monks little merit, affecting less, do not get items such as robes, alms food, is ready, pharmaceutical the treatment. "

He was elected beneficial, respectful, dominant fame, mind occupied, scorn the other monks Chief Justice. The monks, thus bringing misfortune, suffering long for that ignorant.

Thus sorrows, the monks, the benefit obtained, reverently, fame, truth is bitter, evil, the legal obstacles to attain supreme peace, from the yoke of suffering.

Thus, the monks, and he needs to learn. " END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT=WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.30/9/2013.NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).