The Three Laws of Monasticism
Title: The Three Laws of Monasticism
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 298 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Three Laws of Monasticism
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 298 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Monasticism, literally being a hermit, has come to describe the way of life pertaining to people living in seclusion from the rest of the world. These people are under religious promise and subject to a fixed rule, as monks. The basic idea of monasticism is total isolation from the rest of society. The method they have adopted, no matter what the precise details may be, is usually organized asceticism. If the ways of monasticism were
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against worldly principles, even with such as are merely worldly without being sinful. The world desires and honors wealth, so the ascetic loves and honors poverty. If he must have something in the nature of property then he and his fellows shall hold it in common, just because the world respects and safeguards private ownership. In like manner he practices fasting and virginity that thereby he may repudiate the license of the world.
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