Re: Lampang (more words)

Hi E. M.

I am very pleased to hear that Wat Ta-ma-oh is still "alive" and
doing well with its teaching.
I am planning to retire six years from now and to go back
to South-east Asia to resume my study of Buddhism. I hope
that the Bukkhu Sangha does its best to keep their Vinaya so that
I won't have a difficulty in finding a safe/quiet spot
for leading a simple life of dasa-silo.
(I do not think I can become a Bukkhu again.)
tadao



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> Tadao Miyamoto,
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> Thank you for this note:
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> > Here is a small piece of information on wearing footwears.
> > Regardless of the sects they belong to, all the monks in Thailand go for alms-gathering
> without
> > wearing any footwears.
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> I believe I have seen more exceptions-to-the-rule than examples proving the
> rule --thus I was surprised in Lampang.  In Northern Lao, I assume they
> invoke "the Avanti exception" allowing monks in cold/mountainous climates to
> wear boots whenever they need to (due to mud, etc.).
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> > Lampang used to be a quiet city when I was studying at Wat Tamaoh, which was almost
> > 30 years ago.
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> It has changed a great deal in 30 years --whether that change is for the
> better or for the worse, is a matter of opinion.  "Change in empirical;
> progress is ideological"; the more time I spend in "Teso-Lotus Thailand" the
> more I see the advantages of the Uttarakuru --i.e., sleeping on the ground
> as a nomad with no possessions, etc.
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> Until that time ... I've just noticed a job posting for a teacher in a
> remote village in Boten province ... no electricity, no communications ...
> almost Uttarakuru!
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> E.M.
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> --
> A saying of the Buddha from http://metta.lk/
> View Streaming Dhamma Video http://dharmavahini.tv/
> Better to swallow a red-hot iron ball, (which would consume one) like a
> flame of fire, than to be an immoral and uncontrolled person feeding on the
> alms offered by people.
> Random Dhammapada Verse 308
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Tadao Miyamoto, Ph.D.
GSICS, Tohoku University

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