“They’re just like householders who indulge in worldly pleasures!” “You shouldn’t use luxurious earpicks. If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct. I allow earpicks made of bone, ivory, horn, reed, bamboo, wood, resin, fruit, metal, or shell.” More regulations on proper conduct and allowable requisites At one time the monks from the group of six had amassed a large number of metal and bronze goods. When people walking about the dwellings saw this, they complained and criticized them, “How can the Sakyan monastics amass a large number of metal and bronze goods? They’re just like merchants.” “You shouldn’t amass a large number of metal and bronze goods. If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.”