[RiseofAsia]

We should never compare normal worldly beings with the enlightened ones. Buddhism calls for 'expediency', meaning the truly well-intentioned and enlightened ones can do things that endear themselves to the commoners, so that they can slowly influence them.

Just look at Vimalakīrti, who appeared during the same period as Gautama and widely recognized as the other enlightened being. This is one passage from the Vimalakīrti sutra:

"In order to be in harmony with people, he associated with elders, with those of middle age, and with the young, yet always spoke in harmony with the Dharma. He engaged in all sorts of businesses, yet had no interest in profit or possessions. To educate living beings, he would appear at crossroads and on street corners, and to protect them he participated in government. To turn people away from the individual vehicle and to engage them in the Mahāyāna, he appeared among listeners and teachers of the Dharma. To develop children, he visited all the schools. To demonstrate the evils of desire, he even entered the brothels. To establish drunkards in correct mindfulness, he entered all the drinking-houses."

The reason is simple. If he were to preach strict adherence to non-drinking (for example), he would have distanced himself from the masses and would not have achieved anything. Instead, he integrated with them so that he could have their trust and slowly move them away from vices.

For normal worldly people like us, it is not advisable to do this, because instead of us influencing the masses, it could be the other way round.

Every religion will promote its own stuffs.
But some of them copied the stuff from I Ching like 过午不食。This now become one of the Buddhist rules.

Go and read about Taoism, there are 3 main heads?
Also quite interesting…

Japanese Gods even more confusing, total more than 8million gods. Do you know why in Japan parliament, they will have a ceremony, they will bring out some godly stuffs out to show.