Posted on 11/24/2006 5:09:15 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
Buddhist monk cuts off penis and renounces refix
Wed Nov 22, 6:23 AM ET
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai Buddhist monk cut off his penis with a machete because he had an erection during meditation and declined to have it reattached, saying he had renounced all earthly cares, a doctor and a newspaper said on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old monk, whose name was withheld for privacy reasons, allowed medical staff at Maharaj hospital, 780 km (480 miles) south of Bangkok to dress his wound, but refused reattachment, hospital chief Prawing Euanontouch said.
"We cleaned up the wound, gave him some stitches, but he declined to have it reattached because he said had abandoned everything," Prawing told Reuters by telephone.
Prawing declined to comment on the monk's erection, which Bangkok-based Kom Chad Luk tabloid reported on its Web site.
I have never found the occasion to comment on that subject.
Groan! :-)
He probably chants in the tenor section and didn't want to move to alto's....
Man who go through airport turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok.
LOL :)
Can't wait unti he has impure thoughts while meditating.
Several comments:
I guess, given the story, he was practicing TM. As in Transcendental Masturbation.
I guess "Thy rod and thy staff" DIDN'T comfort him too much.
"Prawing Euanontouch"--sounds like Pidgin English for -- "Praying You-A-Non-Touch".
Which seems highly appropriate.
Cheers!
"If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better to enter heaven with only one hand than to go into the unquenchable fires of hell with two hands."
...oh, and could you consider this guy's behaviour an example of reductio ad absurdum?
Cheers!
He's totally out of the The Contest, that's for sure.
To each is own, I guess, but do any of these religious zealots stop to think that maybe the Creator of the Universe imbued us with "earthly cares" for a good reason, and maybe every earthly care doesn't NEED to be renounced?
If I were the Creator of the Universe, I'd feel slighted. I'd meet them at the door to the afterlife saying, "You know, you were going to NEED that up here, ya moron."
LOL!
So now you have Prawing Euanontouch and the Praying Eunuch...
Compare to Shakespeare:
some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them"-- Twelfth Night
, Act II, Scene V.
By the way, there are those that don't appear to agree with this Monk, including those whose work requires careful concentration:
Cheers!
I love this trophy......... can we play on?
Thailand?
But I thought meditation was suppose to be uplifting.
This is a very good item for all of those who believe that eastern mystics posess higher knowledge. Clearly, this fellow and those like him are competely nuts. The danger here is in believing that those boys actually know anything or have any real insight into the nature of reality.
Especially, now.
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