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[quote=YINDUFFY,301151]Here in the U.S. if someone were to drop out of society to go someplace and meditate on the meaning of life or nature's grand scheme that person would not be held in high regard. However in Asian countries, many people enter Buddhist monastaries to meditate and leave the work force. Often while doing a menial task like raking leaves in the fall or mowing the lawn in the summer or shoveling snow in the winter my mind wanders to issues of the day or plans for the future. There is always something that needs to be done. Some jog or exercise while thinking things out. As a New Yorker displaced to New Hampshire I share both work ethics of hard work and consider idleness counterproductive. Eric Sloane, who wrote the statement above, was from New York and Connecticutt. How do modern Chinese view those who enter monastaries?[/quote]
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