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7. What to do with young maidens?
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 09:38 PM
Jun 5

There's a portion of the Buddhist Vimalakirti Sutra

Jagatimdhara is offered twelve thousand heavenly maidens (Eat your heart out Trump and Epstein) by the evil Mara, disguised as Sakra, the king of the gods.

Jagatimdhara says it is inappropriate for a religious person to accept the maidens.

"Then Vimalakirti said to Mara, 'Evil Mara, since these heavenly maidens are not suitable for this religious devotee, a son of the Sakya, give them to me.'

"Vimalakirti, having received the goddesses, said to them, 'Now that you have been given to me by Mara, you should all conceive the spirit of unexcelled, perfect enlightenment.' (anuttara samyak sambodhi)

Vimilakirti then waxes poetic on the joy of the dharma and enlightenment.

I put up the section at pastebin
https://pastebin.com/raw/Ag0q4b0S

RIGHT! Liberate them rather than use them!



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