[Buddha-l] Yogi with a cell phone

[curt]

10 years ago I stayed in a monastery in Korea - the Abbot had a cell 
phone. And there was a pay phone right outside the main "office" of the 
monastery.
- Curt

jkirk wrote:
> Amused by this account, I wondered if Buddhist monks in Thailand are allowed 
> to have cell phones. Anybody know? I feel pretty sure they are allowed them 
> in China, land of hi-tech and rage for gadgetry.
> Joanna
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> The mobile yogi
>
> Sometimes one has to reach the peripheries, move out of the cities to 
> comprehend "change" as we speak of it in India. On one hand are the people, 
> unaffected by the economic boom, carrying on their daily toil, pretty much 
> in similar fashion from their granddad's time, and on the other, everything 
> has changed.
> On our drive from Bangalore to Pondicherry we passed by a very old temple 
> town of Tiruvannamalai. It is a pilgrim town in Tamil Nadu and home to the 
> famous Arunachaleswara Temple. It has long been associated with many yogis 
> and siddhars (saints). Siddhars profess and practiced an unorthodox type of 
> Sadhana, or spiritual practice, to attain liberation.
> As we drove past this town, my interest in matters spiritual being scant at 
> best, I saw a group of yogis sitting outside a small temple. One of them 
> suddenly reached into his bag and pulled out a mobile phone. I slammed the 
> brakes in my car and watched him as he had a leisurely chat on his gadget.
> So this is the extent of our mobile revolution where a yogi who has 
> renounced the world can be sucked right back into it, if the attractions are 
> big enough. 
>
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