Entering monk mode

>>36800685
What made you want to do it? You're essentially hitting the reset button on life to this point, it seems like a hell of a decision.

>>36800685
what dose cook tast like?

>>36800685
You join their order after six months and then turn around to spread their teachings? You'll hardly understand them yourself at that point, much less be prepared to teach others.

>>36800685
I wish you good luck my friend.

>>36800966
I met in university a teacher who mentioned that he was a monk. I asked him about it and he suggested I attended his weekend course in meditation. I did. That was three years ago. The course was really nice, and I felt more awake than I had done in a long time. I didn't practice meditation much in the following months, but a friend of mine attended a course later on and we occasionally meditated together. Once we started seeing positive effects of our practice, we started doing it more often. It was around February this year that I decided to commit to it. In many ways it is a reset button on life. It can perhaps be compared to the ego death some (myself included) experience during a psychedelic trip. I did LSD two years ago and that's probably what kicked my meditation practice into routine after months of vacancy.

>>36800685
What are the pronciples of their teachings?

>>36801012
Yes and no. You learn as long as you live, and their teachings will only grow on me after leaving them. Nonetheless, the six month study will provide me with a grounded experience in Silence and, if I understood them correctly, the teaching methods for The First Sphere (a weekend course).

>>36800685
Retard here, is this monk stuff religious and or spiritual? or is it grounded in science?

>>36801278
Feel free to ignore this. But if there were scientific monks I would definitely join them.
t. other anon

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>>36800685
Why bother coming back?

Why stay there? I think you would be much happier if you found your place there instead of coming back to shitty western society. But then again, I'm not you.

>>36801115
>>36801194
I forgot to post using the tripcode. These posts are by OP in case there was any doubt.
>>36801152
The Bright Path refer to their meditation practice as Ascension, meaning to rise above. What characterizes Ascension compared to other schools is simplicity. To practice Ascension requires no belief in deities, souls or any other dogma that most other schools of meditation demand that you acknowledge. Ascension is based on focusing on certain mantras that we call attitudes. Each mantra or attitude is of positive nature, and by filling the silence in between your thoughts with that attitude, you make that attitude grow in yourself. You do not have to believe that this happens, for it to happen. The teacher only demands that you practice meditating on those attitudes, without worrying about "doing it right".
Furthermore, the Ishaya believe that anyone can achieve enlightenment. It is not a privilege only befitting the talented, the rich, the smart, the hard-working, the masochist, the poor or any other particular group of people. They believe that everyone who meditates regularly, will achieve enlightenment within their lifetime. In sum, many practitioners of Ascension find it to be both accessible, easy and effective.

>>36800685
You ever read Schopenhauer? If so what are your thoughts on the asceticism?

>>36801444
meditation has its roots heavily supported by science so hopefully there are some monks out there doing that stuff. Would be a nice experience living on the bare minimum and learning how to meditate.
nice trips btw

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>>36801460
I believe this quote by Alan Watts sums it up well. Life is more than isolating yourself in a monastery.
I've found a community in another city with many Ishayas. I plan to move there after my return. I've already met them, and they are the best friends I'll ever have.

>>36801588
You got some nice numbers there also. And, yes, I have also heard good things about meditation.

>>36801278
>>36801444
>>36801588
Like he said, plenty of studies on meditation have proven huge benefits to cognitive function. I'm also studying anatomy this year, and I see that the chakras of Eastern philosophy apparently refer to nerve plexuses. The monks of the past must have been able to locate the nerve plexuses of the human body through introspection. If this is correct, then that is a very impressive feat, I think.

>>36801444
dank trips anon, good job

>>36801559
I have not read Schopenhauer.
I have read Plato, and I think that both Plato and Socrates would be very fond of meditation if they had encountered it in their lifetime. Through meditation, you clarify your perception of reality and improve at seeing through self-deception and other illusions. Socrates found himself the wisest man in Athens because he knew that he did not know much, unlike others who believed wrongly that they had knowledge about matters of which they were fools. Surely Socrates would approve of the benefits of meditation. Plato would most likely meditate to gain a clearer understanding of the Form of Goodness.

If you had 3 oranges, and there was a woman, how many people can you recruit to beta uprise?

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>>36802631
The only worthwhile beta uprising is to rise up from your beta shell, channeling your inner Chad into reality.

>>36800685
>gf
>job
>joining monks
get the fuck out you utter normalshit

>>36803317
>leaving GF, job and everything to become a monk
>normie
You keep using that word. I don't think you longer understand what that word means.

>>36803502
you are a fucking normie

monks are fucking normies

you are doing something good with your life

you are a fucking utter normal slime

>>36803574
Clean your room to clear your mind.

>>36803574
>you are doing something good with your life
You present this to me as if this was somehow a bad thing.

>>36800685
>broken up with my GF of five years

Stopped reading right here, away with you normaltrash

Your age shows.

Its a phase. I know so many people who go through a similar fasiom in their early 20s.

Enjoy it, but you will cringe in 3 years time if you if you tell anyone this is anything more than a holiday.

These institutes are basically easy ways for people to make money off a trend. We have many here.

>>36800685
Spanish here.

The only place I know where they will feed you for 6 months in exchange of not doing anything is becoming an intern nun.

Don't do anything stupid. You americans have europe figured out as some place for lifechanging meditation, when it isn't.

And LSD doesn't change you as a person to the point of allowing you to meditate. I bet you also had psychodelic experiences with weed. You are just a walking stereotype.

>>36804102
Having spoken with other Ishayas, I am not convinced that you are anywhere near correct.

>>36804175
>implying I'm american
>implying I've smoked weed
wrong on multiple accounts.

>>36804210
Still not responding to the fact that I'm actually from the country you pretend to flee to in your hissy fit.

You r so smug u could pass for an american. But yeah, LSD is completely fine, but weed is somehow undesirable.

I trully hope you actually do as you said. I truly hope you show up here with your huge bagpack to end up begging around without even knowing the language. It will be much satisfying than roasting you in a forum.

>>36804248
you are assuming many things.
Then again, so am I.

>>36804600
I don't know what kind of response I expected. But you surpassed my expectations. Have fun.

Do as you please with my advice. You'll need as much as you can get.

>>36804600

I guess me and spanish dude are wrong. You must be the exception! No way is anyone making a quick buck of you making a fashion statement.

Good luck!

>>36800685
>Quit job
>travel to Spain to join Ishaya monks
>get to monastery.
>Chad monk opens door. "Hello Anon. We've been expecting you"
>introduces you to other monks, all named Chad
>you autisically stammer out greetings and say you're tired from your trip
>get shown to your room
>the daily routine begins
>Chad monks often group up to mercilessly bully you. Take off all your clothes and giggle as they take turns teabagging you and hitting you with wet towels. They nickname you "stink piss"
>their favorite activity becomes surrounding you at the dinner table and farting all over you as you try to eat.
>"Enjoying your dinner stink piss?" They barely manage to get out through their laughter
>your only reprieve is locking yourself in your room. You have no contact with the outside world
>stay in there for 6 months "meditating" aka fapping as you try to remember your favorite porns

pretty fucking cool if u actually do this op. like really pretty and really fucking pretty cool. like wow. but you wont.

>>36801510
Spanish dude again.

http://espanol.thebrightpath.com/retiros-de-maestria-en-espa%C3%B1a

You are seriously telling me that you believe that a group of people, widely referred to as a cult, that asks for money for seminars about meditation, isn't a scam?

Dude. No. Don't do it. I'm sorry for being an asshole to you before. But after a google search I see you are just another vulnerable kid falling in the grasp of a sect claiming to have the key to happiness, and that's too sad.

Any tips for someone who wants to do something like this?
I wanna reach enlightenment. I wanna be a monk in the mountains

>>36805492
Go somewhere warm.
find a nice beach.
Live there for a few weeks.
Realize this is not what you wanted.
Find a way to have a normal life with time for introspection.

>>36805566
Double dubs. Just saying.