Chocolate is an exception to the No-eating-after-noon rule?

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Re: Chocolate is an exception to the No-eating-after-noon ru

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Hi Lyndon,

I've known Bhikkhus who eat after noon on medical advice. Perhaps there are some bhikkhus or bhikkhunis out there somewhere who would apply the letter of the vinaya over medical advice, but that's speculation.

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Mr Man wrote:
lyndon taylor wrote:Well some of our posters take ancient scripture so literally that you might almost say the Islamic equivalent would be ISIS, which is actually a movement based around the idea of living Islam exactly as it was intended to be lived 1200 years ago, sometimes you need to apply a little common sense when interpreting scripture, and there is an expression "rules are made to be broken"!!
A totally ridiculous comment.
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Re: Chocolate is an exception to the No-eating-after-noon ru

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When I first went on retreat to a Thai Forest monastery I was worried about the lack of an evening meal and took a secret stash of chocolate. :embarassed:

As it turned out they provided us with cheese and chocolate at tea time. I think it was dark chocolate.
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