Perhaps one must pass through each order in order to reach the order above; it’s a small-enough investment of time, after all (only 10% of an ordinary cycle!).
That being said, I don’t buy that it’s necessarily all that important to engage with lower-level problems, or at least not all sorts? One can be a long-term deep math thinker and use lots of lower math but not know much at all of how to sort out the laundry.
I think there is no restriction, aesthetic or social or otherwise, on a higher-Order monk playing around with lower-order concepts as they find useful or intriguing or refreshing or what-have-you.
Perhaps one must pass through each order in order to reach the order above; it’s a small-enough investment of time, after all (only 10% of an ordinary cycle!).
That being said, I don’t buy that it’s necessarily all that important to engage with lower-level problems, or at least not all sorts? One can be a long-term deep math thinker and use lots of lower math but not know much at all of how to sort out the laundry.
I think there is no restriction, aesthetic or social or otherwise, on a higher-Order monk playing around with lower-order concepts as they find useful or intriguing or refreshing or what-have-you.
After 100 days a monk emerges having created the best way to cut pancakes.
The rest of the monastery will miss the constant supply.