Monastic aphorisms

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​The modern monk can be a really sad story. They can be worse than lay-people who at least have to work to earn a living. The worst modern monks just sit with their smartphones all day and fill up their brains with mp3-talks so that they can say impressing things to their supporters, talking like the great Ajahns, but having done none of the practice themselves.

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As monks we have to be so careful not to become “puppet-monastics” – there will be a lot of pressure, from various sources, in that direction. The whole thing can just end up being about wearing the right thing and saying the right thing, to build up your “career”.


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