SEXUAL MISCONDUCT: THE POISONOUS SOCIAL

Abstract

Family violence, abandonment of children and finally broken homes until becoming social catastrophes which are only temporally break by heavenly fire like Sodom and Gomorrah as in the Genesis 19 of the Old Testament of Christianity. Yet even being destroyed, such malfeasance dies hard. Genital indiscipline, the third precept in the Buddhist doctrine means sensual pleasures with another’s wife or someone’s husband and in the sutta, it is referred to having sex with a prohibited person. The remarking in sexual misconduct is demanded to directly and indirectly avoid and forbidden in the five precepts, the eight precepts and the ten precepts. Remarkably, sexual misconduct acts in Buddhism are compared to the acts of a hungry dog, burns by mal-carrying a blazing grass torch, a burning pit, a speedily faded dream, a show-off vanity, a fruit tree risky to be climbed and cut by rogues, a risky meat chopping block, a painful wound pierced by spear or a lance and an endangering snakehead. No poisonous trees yield non-poisonous fruits. Similarly, poisonous social shall yield poisonous societies led first by family wraths.