<p>They try to fulfill   &quot;Muni vrutha&quot; - Muni's=Saga's, vrutha=Duty.</p>
<p>refer - <a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.3.11.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Nalaka sutta</a>.</p>
<p>[Nalaka:]  I ask you, Gotama, you who have gone to the beyond of all things. I'm intent on the homeless life; I long for the almsround. Tell me sage, when I ask you, the utmost state of sagacity.</p>
<p>[The Buddha:]<br />
I'll explain to you a sagacity hard to do, hard to endure.<br />
Come now, I'll tell you.<br />
Be steadfast. Be firm.<br />
Practice even-mindedness, for in a village there's praise &amp; abuse.<br />
Ward off any flaw in the heart. Go about calmed &amp; not haughty.<br />
High &amp; low things will come up like fire-flames in a forest.<br />
Women seduce a sage. May they not seduce you.<br />
Abstaining from sexual intercourse,……..</p>

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Know from the rivers in clefts & in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.   The fool is like a half-empty pot; one who is wise, a full lake. A contemplative who speaks a great deal endowed with meaning: knowing, he teaches the Dhamma, knowing, he speaks a great deal. But he who, knowing, is restrained, knowing, doesn't speak a great deal: he is a sage worthy of sagehood; he is a sage, his sagehood attained.
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Shrawaka
<p>I often read about monks have little free time in their schedules but aside from teaching other monks I am not sure what they do with all their time. I have seen monks in Tibet working in an orphanage and monks in Thailand giving public talks. 
Aside from this what involvement with the community do monks have (excluding dana)?</p>

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Perhaps you want to generalize your question to cover all monks and not just southeast asian monks
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What community activities do monks in southest asia take part in?
# What community activities do monks in southest asia take part in?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-12)

I often read about monks have little free time in their schedules but aside from teaching other monks I am not sure what they do with all their time. I have seen monks in Tibet working in an orphanage and monks in Thailand giving public talks.
Aside from this what involvement with the community do monks have (excluding dana)?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Perhaps you want to generalize your question to cover all monks and not just southeast asian monks  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2015-07-24. Score: 1

They try to fulfill "Muni vrutha" - Muni's=Saga's, vrutha=Duty.

refer - [Nalaka sutta](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.3.11.than.html).

[Nalaka:] I ask you, Gotama, you who have gone to the beyond of all things. I'm intent on the homeless life; I long for the almsround. Tell me sage, when I ask you, the utmost state of sagacity.

[The Buddha:]  
I'll explain to you a sagacity hard to do, hard to endure.  
Come now, I'll tell you.  
Be steadfast. Be firm.  
Practice even-mindedness, for in a village there's praise & abuse.  
Ward off any flaw in the heart. Go about calmed & not haughty.  
High & low things will come up like fire-flames in a forest.  
Women seduce a sage. May they not seduce you.  
Abstaining from sexual intercourse,……..

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Know from the rivers in clefts & in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.   The fool is like a half-empty pot; one who is wise, a full lake. A contemplative who speaks a great deal endowed with meaning: knowing, he teaches the Dhamma, knowing, he speaks a great deal. But he who, knowing, is restrained, knowing, doesn't speak a great deal: he is a sage worthy of sagehood; he is a sage, his sagehood attained.  

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