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What is a bhikkhu?
A bhikkhu (a monk) is someone who lives attentive to anything he does. He is present, he acts without ever rushing. He trains incessantly to have a conduct dignified and irreproachable, to contain his desires and his emotions, and to be patient in all circumstances. He acknowledges all this faults and fully accepts any admonishments without excusing himself. He renounces the pleasures of the world and everything that is not beneficial to the dhamma.
Vigilance and perseverance in the respect for the vinaya are part of the essential qualities on which the bhikkhu must train himself assiduously.
The bhikkhu is – by definition – someone who has renounced everything. By dedicating himself exclusively to practice, realisation, study and teaching of the dhamma, he renounces all possessions, all money, all the activities of the laity, all comfort, anything futile, all beliefs, etc. He is content with the bare minimum.
The next quote from the end of Upakkilesa Sutta
`Stained by lust, anger, and blinded by ignorance
some monks and brahmins take delight in sense pleasures.
Those foolish monks and brahmins drink alcohol,
engage in sexual intercourse,
accept gold, silver, and money,
and obtain their requisites by wrong livelihood.
All of these are called corruptions by the Buddha who shines like the sun.
Those foolish monks and brahmins who are corrupted by these corruptions,
impure, and defiled, do not blaze or shine.
But instead bewildered, blinded, slaves to desire, and full of craving
they increase the size of cemeteries by taking birth again and again.′
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