I was thinking maybe that time and season was bad (tourist season lol) but apparently it is always like that then. I guess that's why those monks seem like they don't mind them as they got used to it.
Wat Arun's area is quite small, it's doomed to be overcrowded...
I guess that's why those monks seem like they don't mind them as they got used to it
And they must be ok about tourist crowds, I believe, since they belong to Buddhism which teaches that reasons of suffering are attachments to people, things, and states of mind. Liberation from attachments is the path to enlightenment and nirvana. If a Buddhist monk is upset about too many tourists, he isn't a good monk. From the point of logic, it's like that. But from the point of real life, any male Thai can become a monk for several days so many of them are just regular Thai people with not really monastic minds.
I was thinking maybe that time and season was bad (tourist season lol) but apparently it is always like that then. I guess that's why those monks seem like they don't mind them as they got used to it.
Wat Arun's area is quite small, it's doomed to be overcrowded...
And they must be ok about tourist crowds, I believe, since they belong to Buddhism which teaches that reasons of suffering are attachments to people, things, and states of mind. Liberation from attachments is the path to enlightenment and nirvana. If a Buddhist monk is upset about too many tourists, he isn't a good monk. From the point of logic, it's like that. But from the point of real life, any male Thai can become a monk for several days so many of them are just regular Thai people with not really monastic minds.