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Originally Posted by tangomike
yeah, dont they have to meditate and the older ones smack the younger ones with a meter stick or something?
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Maybe. I heard of a new monk who wasn't unpacking fast enough so he was hit. After ww2 a lot of men became monks. They brought their military discipline and the ways they teach with them, although I've only heard stuff like this happen in the zen branch of buddhism in Japan, but of course all monks in Japan aren't like that.