I want to know the answer to the following question:
Regarding the monastic rules, the Buddha reminds his hearers that it is the spirit that what?
All the background I'm provided with is that "In this sense, living life as the vinaya prescribes it is, as one scholar puts it: "more than merely a means to an end: it is very nearly the end in itself."". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no