04 Aug

Monkhood is a failure. It is not for those who have succeeded in the world. Rather it is for those who could not, or did not. 

When you seek to make another a monk, and it be against their will, it is an act of violence. 

Be fruitful and multiply, saith the Lord - a command and blessing. And as the breath is to the body, so conceiving is to mankind. 

If he be more fit and capable than you, it is truly a phenomenon that ought to leave humanity dumbfounded. In fact, it is a political maneuver to stifle those of spiritual greatness, not into a prison cell, a hospital, but into a monastery.