I stood in the lounge, staring at the aquarium.<\/p>\n
There lay a fish, asleep, lying on some rocks.<\/p>\n
I wondered for a while, whether this aquarium was big enough for these fishes – do they get bored?<\/p>\n
As a kid you’re confined to the house mostly. As a domestic pet you might have an even smaller surface area you’re allowed to roam in. Having seen one puppy have a small fencing to itself made me quite sad really, thinking animals should roam free and be allowed the joy of travel as and when they want to!<\/p>\n
So kids, if you’re reading your dad’s blog archives, this is why I don’t want pets in the house.<\/p>\n
Sure, kids love dogs, but dogs need dog friends too<\/b>! They got urges, and you’d be glad they don’t put their urges on you.<\/p>\n
Hmmm that was a different tangent than what I originally intended. Anyway! Imagine being a fish – you could swim about and sleep wherever you want, whenever you want. Because you have no belongings<\/b>! There is nothing to take care of. You don’t have to put your stash at home. You have no stash.<\/p>\n
Maybe if you were a baby octopus you’d have a coconut shell as a house, but that is temporary.<\/p>\n
The only thing you’d need to worry about, is that you are not eaten when you are asleep. I take it that different fishes don’t eat each other despite cohabiting, because fish food just tastes better. It has to, for the survival of the smaller fish!<\/p>\n
So is that what being a monk is all about? Having no belongings? All you have is the robe. You have all the time in the world to think about how to solve the world’s problems. Nobody nags you, you don’t have to report to anybody, you don’t have to go to school… you have full control over your mental resources.<\/p>\n
Thus, a child born into a monastery has less mental worth than a regular member of society who knows the problems of society and then becomes a monk and gets to thinking how to solve problems full-time. All the kid is good for, is probably martial arts and being a vegetarian chef. What good does that kid do for society when he comes to town and steals our women, charming them with their ponytails and vegetarian ways?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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