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(344) A monk hears much through his ears and sees much with his eyes; but everything that he has seen and heard does not deserve to be narrated.
(345) The monks do not sleep long at night as they are engaged in studying of scriptures and meditation. They do not fall asleep as they are always reflecting on the meaning of precepts.
(346) The (real) monks are free from attachment, selfconceit, companionship and egotism, they treat impartially and equally all living beings, whether mobile or inmobile.
(347) A real monk maintains his equanimity, in success and failure, happiness and misery, life and death, censure and praise and honour and dishonour.
(348) He is thoroughly unaffected by honour, passions, punishmeni, affliction and fear; he is undisturbed and unbound and free from laughter and sorrow.
(349) He is neither interested in this world nor in the next. He is indifferent to food or fasts. He does not mind whether his limb is smeared with Sandal paste or cut off with an axe.
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