04-13-2012, 01:26 PM
(04-13-2012, 10:53 AM)Eric Wrote: I'm a little confused about the moral of this story. What does it mean exactly? On the surface it seems that disassociating ones self from other people and / or events happening around oneself, to the point of your own physical death, is somehow a good thing? I think I'm missing something.
On a deeper level it appears that because the monk is not attached to his physical life he is able to resist playing in a game that doesn't have value to him.
Lulu