Just wanted to wish the best to all the monastics on here. May your vassa be full of spiritual growth and blessings! I hope our work here on SC is supportive for you.
We live in a world of ever-greater challenges and tensions, and the light of the Sangha is needed more than ever. AN 4.7:
“Mendicants, these four who are competent, educated, self-assured, and learned, who have memorized the teachings and practice in line with the teaching, grace the Saṅgha.What four?A monk,a nun,a layman,and a laywoman.
These four who are competent, educated, self-assured, and learned, who have memorized the teachings and practice in line with the teaching, grace the Saṅgha.
Whoever is competent and self-assured,learned, a memorizer of the teachings,who lives in line with the teaching—such a one is said to grace the Saṅgha.
A monk accomplished in ethics,
and a learned nun,
a faithful layman,
and a faithful laywoman, too:
these grace the Saṅgha,
they are the graces of the Saṅgha.”
