TAKING THE PRACTICE OF NON-ATTACHMENT A BIT TOO SERIOUSLY

A Buddhist monk in Thailand cut off his own penis last week and refused to let doctors reattach it, saying that he had renounced all earthly cares. The trouble began when the 35-year-old monk got an erection while meditating, prompting him to grab a machete and hack the offending appendage clean off. The monk received basic medical attention at a hospital near Bangkok but refused to let surgeons reattach his penis. “We cleaned up the wound, gave him some stitches, but he declined to have it reattached because he said had abandoned everything,” a doctor told reporters. (Reuters)