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OP: May a monastic regulate their alms diet in order to focus on healthy foods and avoid unhealthy ones?
The Theravada Bhikkhu Patimokkha states:
There are these finer staple foods: ghee, fresh butter, oil, honey, sugar/molasses, fish, meat, milk, and curds. Should any bhikkhu
who is not ill, having requested finer staple foods such as these for
his own ...
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May a monastic regulate their alms diet in order to focus on healthy
foods and avoid unhealthy ones?
As a monk, you generally accept what you are given. However, after collecting the food, you can choose to eat certain foods from your bowl and discard other foods; although this may be awkward to do when you are given foods & eat in public (such as at a ...
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May a monastic regulate their alms diet in order to focus on healthy foods and avoid unhealthy ones?
Few can do and most can not.
Would it be appropriate for a monastic to physically exercise for the sake of retaining their health?
When you say for the sake health. Is this closer to rehabilitation after suffering a stroke or jogging for general exercise? ...
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