Chapter 135 4 Viewing the monastery from the perspective of origin

Some people gather together and live together.By what right?By right of association. They live behind closed doors.By what right?By the right to open or close doors that everyone has. They don't go out.By what right?By virtue of the right to come and go that everyone has, this includes the right to stay in one's own house. What are they doing in their rooms? They whisper, they cast their eyes down, they work.They give up society, the city, sensuality, pleasure, vanity, pride, and profit.They wear tweed or coarse cloth.None of them have any possessions.After entering that gate, rich people automatically become poor.He gave everyone what he had.Those who were once called nobles, lords, and lords and those who were once called countrymen are now equal.Everyone's quiet room is exactly the same.Everyone shaves the same hairstyle, wears the same monk's robes, eats the same black bread, sleeps on the same straw, and dies on the same ashes.Carry the same pocket on the back and the same rope around the waist.If it is decided to go barefoot, everyone walks barefoot together.There may be a prince among them, and the prince is a shadow like the others.No more titles, not even surnames.They only have names.Everyone bowed their heads before the equality of names.They left the family and formed a spiritual family in the order.They have no relatives other than the whole human race.They help the poor, they nurse the sick, they elect their subjects, they call each other friends.

You held me back and said excitedly: "This is really an ideal monastery!" As long as it is a possible monastery, it is enough to make me pay attention. In a previous volume, therefore, I spoke respectfully of the condition of a monastery.Except in the Middle Ages, except in Asia, after retaining historical and political issues, from a purely philosophical point of view, standing outside the shackles of religious disputes, in the situation of seminaries absolutely voluntary, based entirely on agreement, I can be able to accept monastic communities. Treat each other with concern and seriousness, even in some respects.Where there is community there is common life, and where there is common life there are rights.The monastery was born out of such a formula as "equality and fraternity".what!Freedom is great!The transformation is brilliant!Liberty was enough to transform a monastery into a republic.

Let's get on with it. But these men, these women, living within four walls, wearing brown tweeds, being equals, called brothers and sisters, that's all very well, but do they do anything else? Do. Do something? They watched the shadows, and they knelt, clasped their hands. what does that mean?