It is very common to hear in videos, some Sri Lankan monks are openly declared, that it is Ok to live in luxurious temples and use expensive vehicles, mobile telephones as far as they are not attached to them. Not only that these monks are disparaging the other monks who refuse these sorts of luxries!
I wonder how the following sutta applies to this. Is this sutta only apply for sexual intercourse by monks or this applies to all types of sensual pleasures?
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... html#fnt-1Arittha's Wrong View
2. Now on that occasion a monk called Arittha, formerly of the vulture killers, had conceived this pernicious view: "There are things called 'obstructions'[1] by the Blessed One. As I understand his teaching, those things are not necessarily obstructive for one who pursues them."
I just came up with this question after listening to the following video.