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This guy is a monk. So that's how they got invented the first time, huh.

Well, if he teaches others what he know and they emulate him, while the general populace tolerate and support them, a new ascetic movement would be made easily.

Still, my heart is with his estranged SO and their children. Ascetics can't support others that well after all.

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Just so long as he doesn't teach too many others - this sort of thing doesn't scale well.

It scaled fine in India and China. That's exactly what Buddhism was. They worked though, just not in lay jobs.

I agree. Even though money is bad, I believe that it's excusable to help others.

(No, the ends don't always justify the means. In the case of community and the greater good, my moral expectations on others are much lower than the strictness with which I judge myself, and I will break my own rules if it means being a better guest/host).

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