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In the video of how you became a monk you mentioned this wasn't even the most interesting part.

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That part started after you became a monk.

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Can you tell us about the time after your ordination?

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The reason I can't really is because

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it deals with monks and lay people who are still alive and still around and still involved with many of the things and places that I am involved in.

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So if I were to tell my story, I suppose I could tell it in such a way as to not incriminate other people.

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But it... It...

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It could be potentially problematic at this point in my life.

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It's the kind of thing that you'd have to wait for the biography, or the autobiography.

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If one day I were to write the autobiography of me, where I could sit down and...

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regale you with or reflect upon my past but at this point it's um

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Once I say it, it kind of sounds like an excuse because I could go through my monk's life and not mention any names, but talk about the things that happened to me, how then I met this person, then I met that person.

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But right, that's the problem is that then there's people who know those people and know what I'm talking about.

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And I have to be very, very careful that I frame things in such a way as to not incriminate people, because there's been a lot of crazy things happen in my monastic life.

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So it may be something that has to wait for the distant future when it's all been cleared up and we can all laugh about it.

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I suppose I can laugh about it now, but some people are not...

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You know, I mean, it's easy to talk about other people, but to have other people talk about you is not so nice.

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Anyway, that's sort of the idea of why I'd hesitate.