Is a major leak determined by the length of time of pursuit?

Someone says that eradicating the craving of the desire realm requires a great deal of time, and moreover carries a heavy mark of contrivance, and that this constitutes a major leak (seepage). If a person with heavy greed resolves it simply by getting married, marriage takes only a short time, and thus counts as a minor leak; pursuing something over a long time is a major leak, while pursuing it briefly is a minor leak. This person's teaching distorts the facts and violates the Buddhist truth of the Four Noble Truths and the principle of liberation.

If pursuing something over a long time constitutes a major leak, then ordinary beings spend three great asaṃkhyeya kalpas pursuing buddhahood—is that a major leak? If eradicating the craving of the desire realm is a major leak, then does it not follow that retaining the craving of the desire realm for countless kalpas, committing immeasurable karma of greed, hatred, and delusion within the six realms since beginningless kalpas, and suffering immeasurable birth-and-death misery, is not a major leak? Is the method for resolving the mind of greed marriage, rather than contemplative practice (vipaśyanā-caryā) on suffering, emptiness, impermanence, and non-self to attain liberation? Is marriage really the method for resolving the craving of the desire realm? Then what should the method for resolving hatred be? Should one kill the person one hates in an instant, so that thereafter there is no more mind of hatred?

An ordinary being spends a mere instant to kill someone—the time spent is extremely short—so is that not a major leak? Does yielding to the affliction of craving not count as a major leak? By this logic, was it meaningless for the Buddha to come to this Sahā world of heavy afflictions to teach the dharma of liberation—do sentient beings attain liberation simply by yielding to their afflictions and desires?

Should the gravity of a leak be measured by the time spent, or by the weight of the affliction? If one indulges greed for an extremely short time, is that not a major leak? Is marriage the method for resolving greed? Is killing the method for resolving hatred? Who does not know that marriage is precisely a manifestation of greed? Since beginningless kalpas, sentient beings have married life after life in their human existences—have they not been greedy all along? For the sake of this greed they have suffered immeasurably life after life—is this not an obvious fact?

It appears that this person does not truly have faith in and accept the Buddha-dharma, yet sits on a high seat expounding the dharma, posing as a good teacher, teaching sentient beings to simply yield to greed and desire, to yield to greed, hatred, and delusion, to indulge however they please, not to study and cultivate suffering, its origin, cessation, and the path, and not to eradicate greed and hatred—because that would take a great deal of time, the loss outweighing the gain, and it is better to enjoy pleasures while one can. If this is unbearable, then so be it; if heretics said such things it would be one thing, since they are heretics after all—but this is someone who claims to be a good teacher and a true good teacher, someone who expounds the principle of liberation. Clearly this person wants to pin all sentient beings down in the six realms to join him in greed. The unwholesome karma each person creates is like lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot, or spitting toward the sky only to have it fall back on one's own face. In ancient times, a person fell into the body of a wild fox over the error of a single word; this person's errors are extremely great and extremely many, and the retribution will be terrifying.