The other monks said to him, “Hasn’t a training rule been laid down by the Buddha? Why then do you have sexual intercourse with a monkey?” “It’s true that a training rule has been laid down by the Buddha, but it concerns women, not animals.” “But that’s just the same. It’s not suitable, it’s not proper, it’s not worthy of a monastic, it’s not allowable, it’s not to be done. How could you go forth on such a well-proclaimed spiritual path and not be able to practice the perfectly complete and pure spiritual life to the end? Hasn’t the Buddha given many teachings for the sake of dispassion … the stilling of the fevers of worldly pleasures? This will affect people’s confidence, and cause some to lose it.” After rebuking that monk in many ways, they told the Buddha.