CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Morality
21 Nov 2017
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A passage from something you"ve read from lopez (cid:523)tutorial book(cid:524) Picks the best passages from tutorial-> usually puts two options up. Ta marks the final exams under close supervision. Life of brahmana, or brahmin: men trained as priests from an early age by learning texts by heart. Sramana (cid:523)(cid:498)a person who strives(cid:499)(cid:524) (may be women- probably were) 1(cid:524) they would (cid:498)leave home(cid:499), and become wanderers with minimal possessions, living on alms: they controlled and limited their desires (for food, sex, sleep, etc. , they practiced austerities. If you could limit the desires of samsara-> you could break free of samsara. They brush the path in front of them with a fibre brush. Wear cloths on their faces to cover their mouth and nose so as not to breathe in bugs. Are mendicants (beggars)-> they only eat and take what people give them: take 5 great vows (like the five precepts)- take (cid:498)not to kill(cid:499) extremely.
