"It was not in Ythrian nature to brood - not even as a bad pun, they giving live birth - and bird-humans had tried to educate themselves out of the habit." (p. 449)
That is a good consequence of human beings joining choths. Practitioners of Zen become preoccupied like anyone else but also practice letting of a preoccupation at every moment.
Clinging to grievances or bearing grudges has to be avoided or counteracted in a monastic context. Anyone who was strongly attached to grievances or grudges would have to accept that they did not belong in such a community.
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Kaor, Paul!
I'm sure that's also the case in well run Christian monasteries--monks being trained while postulants and novices to let go of grudges and grievances. And continuing to do so as fully professed monks.
Ad astra! Sean
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