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**FilmCriticAwezume** · 07-13-2012, 02:08 AM

Before the Buddha instituted the Rains, Buddhist renunciates would wander year-round, so there's nothing inherently essential about it. In fact, after the Rains were instituted as such, that became the time for donating cloth and other such items, and it was a time of greater contact between the monastics and the laity. Therefore, the Rains could be associated with less effort and more distractions.

It's changed nowadays, where the Rains are seen as a time of intense practice, but this seems to get things somewhat backwards.

07-13-2012, 02:08 AM	#4
FilmCriticAwezume Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 445 Senior Member	Before the Buddha instituted the Rains, Buddhist renunciates would wander year-round, so there's nothing inherently essential about it. In fact, after the Rains were instituted as such, that became the time for donating cloth and other such items, and it was a time of greater contact between the monastics and the laity. Therefore, the Rains could be associated with less effort and more distractions. It's changed nowadays, where the Rains are seen as a time of intense practice, but this seems to get things somewhat backwards.
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