a brief exchange with lhundrup on the teachers meeting that stuck with me:

he was talking about the raw cost efficiency of the monastic lifestyle, saying that he could concentrate on studying and teaching the dharma, and that it cost around <b>3000 euros a year </b>to support him to do that.

it was another argument that made me think that we need to re-emphasise that simpler, more renunciant, 'full-timer' strand in our community. in my own life, for that matter.

and a wee story that suvajra told over breakfast. a monk visited chatrul rimpoche, one of bhante's teachers. the monk put a photo of one his own teachers on the shrine. 'take that picture off', chatrul rimpoche said, 'i don't want pictures of meat eaters on my shrine'.