Foreward
This year a large number of monks and novices came to be ordained and to live together here at Wat Asokaram for the Rains – some of them planning eventually to leave the monkhood, some of them to stay. This being the case, I wrote down a piece explaining and analyzing our duties for their information, so that they would have something of religious value to keep and take with them for the progress of the community of monks and novices in the days to come.
After the piece was written and read aloud to the group, it seemed appropriate for use in the area of administering the Saṅgha at large, and so it has been printed for free distribution as a gift of Dhamma, in order that Buddhism may prosper and thrive for the well-being of us all.
Phra Suddhidhammaraṅsī Gambhīramedhācariya
(Ajaan Lee)
Wat Asokaram
Samut Prakaan
October 6, 1960
