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Less is more
Gassho
Kyōsen
Sat|LAH橋川
kyō (bridge) | sen (river)Comment
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No, will wag a finger at too much of that, and I added "(of ordinary length)" to the description to cover Faulkner and friends.
This is how the Vinaya rule for monk behavior in India started off with a simple rule like "don't have sex," and soon ended up with pages and pages of rules about "and that includes not with a sack of rice" but "it's okay if asleep and you had sex in a dream but you didn't mean it, but not including if you went to sleep hoping it would happen in a dream, and further, the foregoing includes dreams about sacks of rice!"
So, let's keep the spirit of the rule!
Gassho, J
STLahLast edited by Jundo; 07-17-2020, 08:04 PM.ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLEComment
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No, will wag a finger at too much of that, and I added "(of ordinary length)" to the description to cover Faulkner and friends.
This is how the Vinaya rule for monk behavior in India started off with a simple rule like "don't have sex," and soon ended up with pages and pages of rules about "and that includes not with a sack of rice" but "it's okay if asleep and you had sex in a dream but you didn't mean it, but not including if you went to sleep hoping it would happen in a dream, and further, the foregoing includes dreams about sacks of rice!"
So, let's keep the spirit of the rule!
Gassho, J
STLah
Gassho, Shinshi
SaT-LaH空道 心志 Kudo Shinshi
For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Understood.
Gassho,
Kyonin
Sat/LAHHondō Kyōnin
奔道 協忍Comment
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Yeah sounds just like the journey of the policy manual at my clinic. Every year we revise it and add all the new creative sandbox rules we have been forced to come up with.No, will wag a finger at too much of that, and I added "(of ordinary length)" to the description to cover Faulkner and friends.
This is how the Vinaya rule for monk behavior in India started off with a simple rule like "don't have sex," and soon ended up with pages and pages of rules about "and that includes not with a sack of rice" but "it's okay if asleep and you had sex in a dream but you didn't mean it, but not including if you went to sleep hoping it would happen in a dream, and further, the foregoing includes dreams about sacks of rice!"
So, let's keep the spirit of the rule!
Gassho, J
STLah
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH
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By the way, I did not make up the content any of those Vinaya rules (although I don't think it literally says "bag of rice," it does list similar "inanimate objects"). Apparently, a few of those old monks came up with 101 ways to bend the rules on a lonely Tuesday night.
Intentional emission of semen, except while dreaming, entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Community. ... A bhikkhu causes an emission making an effort (1) at an internal object, (2) at an external object, (3) at both an internal and an external object, or (4) by shaking his pelvis in the air. It then goes on to explain these terms: The internal object is one’s own living body. External objects can either be animate or inanimate objects. ...
In making the exception for what happens while asleep, the Buddha states that even though there may be the intention to cause an emission, it doesn’t count. The Commentary goes on to say, however, that if a bhikkhu fully awakens in the course of a wet dream, he should lie still and be extremely careful not to make a move that would fulfill the factor of effort under this rule. If the process has reached the point where it is irreversible and the ejaculation occurs spontaneously, he incurs no penalty regardless of whether he enjoys it. ... However, the Commentary’s two cases concerning nocturnal emissions, mentioned above, indicate that if a nocturnal emission occurs after a bhikkhu made a fully intentional effort toward an emission before falling asleep, he would incur the full offense under this rule unless the effort and intent were clearly stopped with a clear change of heart while he was still awake.
And you guys think you have it rough just to use three sentences!?!
Gassho, J
STLahLast edited by Jundo; 07-18-2020, 12:14 AM.ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLEComment
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I consider it an excellent challenge in learning to write more intentionally.
Gassho
Sat today, lah求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.Comment
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Wonderful.
"Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." - Steve Jobs (Wired, 1996)
Gassho,
Mui
Sat/LAH無依 Mui
"Relies on Nothing"Comment
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Interesting. What's the idea behind introducing this?
Gassho,
Sam
STLahComment
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Old Teacher Old Artificer stand me now and ever in good stead.
Tai Shi
sat/ lah
GasshoPeaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive,
for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆Comment
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Sounds like a great experiment
Gassho,
Seibu
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