Dhammanando wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 3:56 pm
SarathW wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:41 am
I was under the impression that monks are not allowed to share their alamfood with others or beggars.
There are certain items of sangha property that it's a Vinaya offence to give away, but almsfood isn't one of them.
Bhante,
thats not right at all. It's not for increasing faith, such statement aside of missinterpreting the Dhamma. It's common today that monks make gifts and alms a waste and forward it back to Samsara and pain for making favors, for their living and to get honored by those with wrong view.
Even "careless" forwarding toward Bhikkhunis was rightly blamed! Yet monks suggest foward alms to common folk, even animals, or what ever they think worthy of gift, get's an approve... nobody outside could even distinguish the rest proper, when on one side or both purifed given. That's why there are even roles for casting it away.
Western-modern-social-work-monastism ... when reading Vinaya with corrupt mind, like a lawyer seeks a work-around for going after desires, 1000 books of rules would not bring the Group-of-Sex monks into frame and on Noble ways.