Mumfie wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 10:02 amThe chathu (Pali, catu) in Chathu Madura means "four".
The four ingredients are ghee, unsalted butter, jaggary and honey. The instructions for making it can be seen Mahamevnawa YouTube channel.
One doesn't need to be a mind-reader or a Freudian psychologist to detect what Freud called the "narcissism of small differences". It's a phenomenon common to any group whose way of life is based upon a heavily legalistic code, like ultra-Orthodox Jews, Plymouth Brethren, Conservative Quakers and Theravada bhikkhus. In the last case it can readily be observed that those communities where the Vinaya is fairly strictly observed will often produce monks who are more given to criticizing the monks in similarly strict communities over small points of difference than they are to criticizing monasteries in which the monks are grossly lax about Vinaya. Hence "the narcissism of small differences." (I don't mean to imply, of course, that the monks in strict communities will all be like this, only that there'll usually be some).
Apologies, I thought Chathu Madura was made from Ghee. Apologies If I am wrong I thought Chathu Madura was definitely allowable though and there are examples in the Suttas of Lord Buddha & Arahant Monks consuming it as sustenance after mid-day? Perhaps I am mistaken. I didn't realize it was a Mahamevnawa/Sri Lankan cultural thing? Can anyone else shed any more light on this?
It seems perhaps the Mahamevnawa guys need to up their game too then?
I think you are misreading my thinking/reasoning behind making these posts though.. perhaps I am like Elon Musk with Twitter playing 5D chess in my head trying to mend various Schisms in the Sangha, even before they occur? Who knows?
KeepCalm
p.s. Does anyone know where the Burmese Monastery is in Romford?