Should monks surf the Internet?

Is spreading the Dhamma electronically sacrilegious? Is a computer just a glorified typewriter or tablet? It is not as if Buddhists are any more technophobia than any other members of the religious community are, but there needs to be an acceptance of computers and new technology as we enter the twenty-first century, which isn’t necessarily apparent at the moment.

What is happening now is that we have new tools and more sophisticated ways to spread the Dhamma. So now monks, who have always had the role of teachers and scholars, are becoming increasingly computer literate. So it is the cyber monk, skilled in the new medium of the Internet that will take the Buddha-Dhamma into the twenty-first century and beyond.
(www.buddhanet.net)

What’s wrong with these monks?

You may always think like that. What’s wrong with these monks? They do everything they are not supposed to do. Like eating in afternoon, watching television, always asking money, do politics and all those terrible things. What a shame. Just look what they doing to our religion.
Novices, oh my god they worse than monks. Specially little novices. They run all over the temple, climb trees, fighting each other. And the way they behave with girls, disgusting.

Have you being a monk ? even for a day ? can you do fasting from 12 noon to 5am everyday ? even for a week ? can you live a week without using money and do everything as usual ? even a day ? when you are small your mom always telling you not touch sand, not to run, not to climb trees. How many times you obey to her ? once ? twice ?

Now let me ask you. What’s wrong with you ? you can't do these things even for a 2 – 3 days and you expect monks and novices to do them every day though their whole life. How could you ?

I am not telling that its ok for monks to brake precepts. But they are also human. Always see something not watch. A problem always has many sides. Don’t look only your side.