Well, Buddha taught detachment. Become detached from all the things of this world, including
family. Don't be attached to even your own spouse. Detached, okay? And Buddha really
practiced what he preached because Prince Siddhartha, actually, the day that his first
son was born, his newborn son, can you imagine, those of you who have kids, you're married
and your wife gives birth to the newborn son, the firstborn son. He leaves in the middle
of the night and doesn't come back for six years. So, I mean, can you imagine? I mean,
your wife gives birth, it's your first baby, oh, it's a boy. Middle of the night, he leaves
and never comes back for six years. Doesn't even say goodbye. He went in to say goodbye
and he saw his wife and his newborn son sleeping and he said, well, if I say goodbye to them,
it's going to be a lot harder for me to leave, so I'm just going to leave. So I can go out
in the woods and do some navel gazing for the next six years. So he leaves his family
in the middle of the night, doesn't even say goodbye, so he can go out in the woods, hanging
around with a bunch of long-haired ascetics that we read about in the Rig Veda and practice
Hinduism for years. So he went through all that and he kept getting more and more radical
with his Hindu practices of meditating and learning from the gurus, learning the Vedas,
maybe a little soma in there, a lot of butter. But then, he started getting into extreme
asceticism, so he wanted to, in order to receive enlightenment, he just started starving himself
and he kept just eating less and less food until he got to the point where he's eating
one grain of rice per day. He said that he got so skinny that he could reach in his stomach
and feel his spine behind it. He's just skin and bone. He was literally dying of starvation
when he realized, like, I don't think this is working. So then, you know, this little
girl said, like, here, eat this rice milk. And he took the rice milk and ate it and then,
you know, he went on and sat under the fig tree and received enlightenment and all that.
Okay, let's see what Jesus teaches in Matthew chapter 19 verse 4. And he answered and said
unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male
and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave
to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore, there are no more twain but one
flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Look, the Bible does
not teach you leave your wife to go navel gaze in the woods. I mean, think about us,
think about how selfish this is, how self-absorbed, how narcissistic. I just need to go meditate
on the self for a while, while my newborn baby and my wife are just forsaken and forgotten.
No, no, look, if you get married, you take care of your wife. You cleave on your wife
and she's your responsibility. You don't just leave. It's wicked. If any man provide not
for his own, especially for those of his own house, he's denied the faith and is worse
than an infidel is what the Bible teaches. Now, the Bible does talk about some people
remaining single and focusing on the things of God, but guess what? Once you're married,
you're married. You can't just leave your wife. I want to get more spiritual. See ya.
And just leave. It's unbelievable. In fact, some of the earliest Buddhist writings are
women talking about how great it was to just leave their husband and kids to go to some
monastery and be a Buddhist nun. Free at last from chores and housework and my jerk of a
husband, literally. And these Buddhists will lift these up and say, these are some of our
most ancient writings. Women complaining about housework? Really? Look, you've got to stay
with it. Husbands, you've got to stay with it. Wives, you've got to stay with it. When
you get married, it's still death to us part.