Why do monks call themselves poor monks? Why do Taoist priests call themselves being original? Are they poor?

Why do monks call themselves poor monks and Taoists call themselves poor? This is a modest statement. They are not necessarily really poor. Monk is a appellation of Buddhist thought, and Taoist is a appellation of Taoist thought. The reason why I call myself a poor monk, or original, is because Buddhism and Taoism all seek spiritual comfort and ignore the importance of material life. Fame and wealth are fleeting before their eyes and worthless in their eyes. They try to sublimate their lives in their own spiritual world and find a way to achieve eternal life spiritually.

In ancient feudal society, monks and Taoists were at least equivalent to the middle class. They can eat a full meal every day and put on warm clothes when it is cold, which is a very luxurious life for the bottom people in ancient society. What we are seeing now is the ancient rule of Zhenguan, the scene of prosperity and prosperity, just to meet the basic living requirements of the people at the bottom of the society at that time, and these Taoist monks lived a good life with the incense money donated by the rich, but neither Taoism nor Buddhism advocated them to live a luxurious life.

We can see these monks and Taoists in many literary works now, and their ultimate goal is to cultivate immortality. From another point of view, it is to enter your own spiritual world, which is completely out of touch with modern real life, in which you can live the life you want at will. In fact, from a certain point of view, it is a negative attitude of avoiding the world, and it can also be said that it is a life attitude without competition, which has both advantages and disadvantages.

Nowadays, Taoists and monks have become a profession in society. Moreover, not ordinary people can enter this industry, and there is a high degree.