A wise and gentle monk in the denouement of his morning rituals thought to walk beyond the familiarity of the monastery's walls. The monastery itself did not require him to do so. There were animals for slaughter, plenty of grain, vegetables, clean water. Nor did they require clothing, furniture of any kind, nor psychological, nor medical assistance. The monk was guided by individualistic motives. A voice much like his own rose from the depth of his chakras, his being, commanding the monk to eavesdrop on the laypeople of the world to perhaps reconsider their vanity and the delusions thereof. This monk had lived several lives, and he thought about these as he made the journey from his temple to the larger, outer world. There was no deficit of errors in his history. He'd been a disobedient child and a thief and a liar. He'd been covetous, an adulterer, a scam artist. He'd yet to deprive a...