Being unaware of hypocrisy is itself hypocrisy

It came as a huge shock to me to know that many Chinese have nothing but contempt for a Shaolin Temple monk who is rumored to have violated the teachings of the Buddha by keeping a mistress and fathering a son. Without ever doing any soul-searching, many ranking officials have used bribes and embezzled funds to do the same, and very few ranking officials placed under investigation or indicted have been free from this wrongdoing.

A monk keeping a mistress has been fodder for distasteful public gossip since ancient times, because a monk here is not supposed to keep physical relations with women.

Today, neither officials nor monks are supposed to have mistresses. So if a monk can be accused of sacrilege for keeping a mistress, an official doing the same should be accused of corruption (in fact, many of them have actually been so accused and disciplined according to Party rules).