Masaki asked, is one able to ordain with a medical condition such as epilepsy that they take medicine for?
I'll start now.
Yes, it's possible to meditate.
The question of course is what the medication does to your mind.
I would, if possible, much rather have, especially with epilepsy, have a person slowly begin to wean themselves off the medication in favor of the meditation.
And when an epileptic fit occurs, because as I understand they're mainly physical, I don't know how it affects the mind, and maybe you can enlighten us, but
If you're having an epileptic fit and you're still able to be mindful of it, then just be mindful of it as best you can.
If you want to take some medication, then take some medication.
To ordain, I think that is not allowed.
I'm not sure that ordination is not possible when you have epilepsy.
This is one of the questions of the sicknesses.
As far as I think,
It depends how extreme it is, I suppose.
If you can find, if you can, if you can, we should do this as a test.
What I said, we'll practice meditation.
I'm sorry I misread the question, but do that as a test.
If through meditation practice, your epilepsy is,
well, even cured, then you could ordain, because the word is just a word.
If certain things occur in the body, they may change over time.
Of course, these sicknesses, if a person becomes cured of these things, then they can ordain.
So you should test it out in the meditation, see how your meditation practice affects it, because you should certainly have these things.
dealt with before you ordain.
Having any condition for which you have to take medication for, which you have to take, or in order to function properly, have to take medication for, is a real sign that you may not be able to ordain.
because you can't be sure that you're going to get that medication even though you'll be allowed to there's allowances to ask for it and so on it becomes a burden and because of the uncertainty of being a monk and the necessity of being content with whatever you get makes it quite a
a burden to the Sangha and a barrier to your own ability to carry out all of the duties of a monk and keep the hundreds of rules and the practices and the communal lifestyle.
There are certain sicknesses I don't remember all.
Leprosy is one.
Ringworms, I think, is one.
And I think epilepsy is one of them.
There are certain sicknesses you cannot have, or if you have them, you cannot ordain.
There is a part of the ordination procedure where you are questioned, do you have this, do you have that?
And if you say, yes, I do, then you'll probably be advised not to ordain.
Okay.