And you're sitting at the meal. The new monk comes in and sets up his bowl. Don' t be silly, it's just a bowl stand, you're a grown man and you have a perfectly good stand already. You know the logic but the desire mind has no pride. It wants something, anything.
Food is limited and one can find the mind coveting another monks pear.
It becomes so absurd sometimes that it suddenly falls into perspective. The rules themselves can be roughly divided into four groups. 4 Rules of defeat - i.e. automatic excommunication. If one of the rules in this group is broken it is not possible for that person to reordain. They are obviously critical and are taught to a new monk literally within minutes of his ordination.