Ajahn Sudhiro - Buddhist monks and vegetarianism

Buddhist monks are alms mendicants who depend on the food offerings (pindapata) that lay people make out of kindness. Therefore they cannot be choosy about what they are going to receive, they should not reject food offerings. However, they can choose to eat vegetarian food for health reasons, etc. One should be easy to support and not make a lot of fuss about what one will eat or not. (Jivaka Sutta -- http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an08/an08.026.than.html) See www.rightview.org

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[dhammatube]

Please use headphones and turn up the volume to maximum to listen to the video.

[number94]

Inaudible, even with headphones and the volume turned up to 11

[adamitinerant]

Like I said I can't hear Ven. Sudhiro, so apologies if he has given something more plausible than the usual flannel on this topic.

[adamitinerant]

I'm kind of glad I can't hear this. There are so many pure answers, to so many complicated questions in the Dhamma. But to accept the usual answers, trotted out in defence of monks and their meats, you'd better switch of the bull detector, if you've got one. According to the text and the commentary, the Buddha laid down a whole heap of rules and guidelines to smooth the way for monks, nuns and lay people. Why would he not have laid down rules here?