What the Monk Saw in the Moonlight

(Excerpted from Practice Makes PURPOSE, Part One: Compassionate Seeing)There is an old story from the Egyptian desert about a monk who suspected his monastic brother of breaking the vow of celibacy. The first monk could never quite put his finger on what made him so suspicious; there was just something about the other monk that bothered him. He was constantly on the lookout for any evidence to prove his suspicions.After some surreptitious spying, he discovered the brother often slipped out of...