One has to spend time in a Theravadin monastery to see the spiritual effects that the centuries of Vinaya formalism have undergone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the generalized hypocrisy of monastic

Hipocresía Uno tiene que pasar tiempo en un monasterio de Theravadin para ver los efectos espirituales que han padecido los siglos de formalismo de Vinaya. En ninguna parte es esto más obvio que en la

As we have already seen, without a living Buddha it is not possible to be enlightened and, in addition, the words of the Buddha resonate: Collection of speeches grouped numerically AN 1.316-332. Third