How does monks survive in the free with the limitations they have? (Thinking the forest monks)

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• Wow. Someone is really good at lashing out and pointing fingers, eh? Has it ever occurred to you, that people don´t know everything about everything? So if there is a monk coming to visit Mexico City, have never heard of him(her). This "not knowing" you´re turning into a crime.
  It looks like there is a paranoia going on, which goes onto a personal level. That is off-topic and unacceptable.
  Now most of your type would love to be satisfied with a solid explanation of things, but I don´t have do explain myself, and I won´t explain anything about me or my life, You can specualte all you want and deduct anything "logical" that makes sense to you. What I see... Well it doesn´t matter and is off topic. But the level of assumptions you make on behalf of other peoples knowledge and life, is outrageous and the behaviour shows very little understanding of the practise.

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  by KJ. on January 25th, 2008

• You're a sock puppet, and not very good at it.

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  by Anon y mouse on January 25th, 2008

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• hehe. But a lay-community is not in the free. There are monks wandering around in the jungles of Thailand and cambodia, who are unsupported by laypeople or other monks. They need to be able to survive somehow, but how - I don´t know. The forest monks, the kammatthana branch are more disciplined than the thammayut and the Maha Nikai´s, so it´s a mystery to me how they do it. lol.

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  by KJ. on January 24th, 2008

• ...And EK. I talked with Patisallano. There is no problem in re-ordaining you, even in the position you had before you dropped the rope. You never told me in the few hours we spoke, that you had been in robes! Phra Khru, eh? Bad bad man! But it gave me an idea for a new question.

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  by KJ. on January 24th, 2008

• Kathy, if you have a Theravadin monk that you can talk to, why ask questions on here, especially when they are often answered by people who don't really know what they're talking about? As to your question - I did post a response but it doesn't seem to have appeared but, in brief, although the Thai Forest monks are called forest monks, they don't necessarily live in the forest and are almost always near villages or towns where there are lay people that can support them.

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  by Anon y mouse on January 24th, 2008

• First of all i dont know why would anyone feel the need to "protect" concepts or point fingers to snobbery or anything at all. "Zenmonk" I know first hand that what you are saying about forest monks being supported by communities is UNACCURATE(my sister is married to a former forest monk).
  And last, what bussiness Zenmonk has in telling people were to go to ask questions and how to follow their path? How old are you btw? I really think you would do less harm to others by posting in a theist forum.

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  by Hvid on January 25th, 2008

• I don't care who your sister is married to. Monks don't live on thin air and the forest monks live near villages in order to support themselves. As for protecting concepts - who is doing that Hvid?

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  by Anon y mouse on January 25th, 2008

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