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, just picture, 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, you know, learning from the gurus, learning the Vedas, you know, maybe
a little soma in there, a lot of butter.
But then, but then he started getting into like extreme asceticism.
So he wanted to just, 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, you know, 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 lime and all that.
Wait, let's see what Jesus teaches in Matthew chapter 19, verse four, "And he answered and
said unto them, Have you 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
a cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore there no more twain
but one flesh. What therefore God had 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 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 grieve under 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 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. These are some of our most ancient writings. Women
complaining about housework? Really? Look, you gotta stay with it. Husbands, you gotta stay with
it. Wives, you gotta stay with it. When you get married it's still death to us part.