Just a small “monk life” entry: IIT, Sri Lanka, June 23, 20204

Yesterday was the day after the Full Moon Uposatha Day. We didn’t get a lot of food from the village alms round. I went by myself on my usual route, and another monk went by himself on a different route that he sometimes goes to.

I’m not sure what happened. Maybe the villagers were at the monasteries all night. But that day, I didn’t get much food. I got rice of course, but just a few curries. It was enough for me though. When I came back, the other monk was waiting for me because all he got was maybe one or two spoons of rice and one spoon of curry, a vegetable curry.

Ven Sunanda (China)

One of the Chinese monks named Venerable Sunanda recently had his birthday. For his birthday, he determined to offer 100 shoulder cloths to various monks and ended up making 123. What is a shoulder cloth? It is a small robe that monks often like to wear underneath their upper robe.

from http://www.justwalkedby.com/2016/03/sweeping-monk/ creative commons attrib nc

We have an abundance of robes in the storage room and with vassa coming up, we will get more and more. I think it was last year, I got a couple of robes for entering vassa and 8 or 9 robes at the end of vassa. So, this monk took many robes and cut them up and resewed them to the proper size for a shoulder cloth with included tie-strings to help keep them in place.