why did buddha rule that, novics and monk are not allowed to eat any food after 1 pm. especically Monk is not allowed to have a dinner? do you have your own reseason why?
when you stomach is full, you can not stop your mind thinking about other things such as money, love, sex, entertainment, etc, especially when you are alone at night. When your stomach is empty, your mind will not disperse, and you can concentrate more on the teaching of buddha.
As for the reason above, monks will not allowed to have dinner.
That's my grand father told me long long time ago
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I think dinner is the less important meal since our body won't need to use much energy at night [unless you work at night, of course]. And monks don't work at night. So it's logical not to have dinner. Lord Buddha teaches us not to be greedy; we should not consume things that are not necessary.
In the past, if monk have dinner so lady can serve dinner for monk at night time maybe some ladies and monks make someting outrules , at night time difficult to control monk behaviour especially when monk and ladies see together out of sight . To protect wrong thing may happen with monk so buddha make a rule not allow monk have dinner. The last I think have 2 meals per day make good health because dinner make a bad health (fat & weight)
I'm sure the buddha did not set that rule, but he believe "we eat to live and not live to eat" It's a practice of ENOUGH. I guess being full and not needing more. So his followers are just following his principle.
I undertake the precept to refrain from eating at the forbidden time (i.e., after noon).
Rationale: ...aims at cutting down the sloth which is experienced after a day's work and a substantial evening meal, while it ensures that the body is light and fit for meditative practice. (source: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/khantipalo/wheel206.html#atthasila) After 12 noon, we do not consume any food.At most we drink a little bit of a beverage.This is enough.For what reason?Because it is considered that 2 meals daily are enough for us to live.As for the third meal, if we chant, pray, maintain the precepts, and meditate, we do not use much energy.So 2 meals are enough. (source: http://www.dmc.tv/pages/en/good_questions_good_answers/sila_vata.html)
Anonymous wrote:There are some exceptions if the monks are sick
why did buddha rule that, novics and monk are not allowed to eat any food after 1 pm. especically Monk is not allowed to have a dinner? do you have your own reseason why?
Where are MONKS came from ? Where is BUDDHA came from ?
How about CHINESE BUDDHA ? How about VIETNAMESE BUDDHA ? How about BUDDHA around the world ?
Why they are difference ?, Monks are the HUMAN, What is Big Deal about dinner. Think about !!!!!!!!!!
Howmany RELEGION in this Wolrd ? They are all Good. Which one BETTER ? I don't know.
Plese give me good answer.
Oooh I am lao in USA.
A good religion is the one that did not ask the worshiper to sacrifice his/her life or kill other people in the name of GOD just because they don't have the same belief as yours.
A good religion is the one that does not try to intimidate people with different faith and love all beings and do not garnished certain a mount of money from their followers' pay check as mandatory participants and it should be up to their followers generosity if they want to make donation or not.
A religion that scared me the most is the one that told me that since I'm Buddhist I will not go to heaven, because I don't believe in God and that's Jesus. This is very disturbing for to hear this kind of words.
Seems like you dudes have never been a monk before.
The reason why monks don't eat after lunch is actually quite simple, it is to feel hunger, and hence, feel the dependecy that humans have by being alive. We are not independent, no self, we are conditioned beings. When the Buddha was still practising before enlightenment, he followed some other teachers who practised fasting, not eating for days at a time. He later abandoned this practise since he realized that the body needed nutrients to keep the mind functioning properly in order to gain wisdom. This also lead to the "middle path" which translates to living in moderation and not extremes. This hunger or craving/wanting is the root of suffering/life, if we monks are reminded of this hunger everyday, we will be able to understand it and fight it head on, thus becoming free from it eventually.
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