12-11-2012, 11:40 AM
I Was shortly at a Buddhist monastery (nalanda) in S-France. While the place was nice there was more political infighting there than in most places I've been. If you wish to actually participate in a monastery, found one. (as in, start one).
Get a small plot with 3-4 extra rooms in the countryside somewhere with a good cheap job that will pay you enough to take care of yourself, the property and anyone who visits. Put on a robe and hang a sign "Monastery, ask X for entrance into order" and just name it something.
There, you have your own monastery.
The teachings come from the facility (monastery itself) not the people in it. IF you found one with an open heart, only those with an open heart will gravitate to it, and you will always learn more
I'd recommend some good site in the US or possibly Argentina or other area with large enough tracts of unused land. (Costa Rica would work since thats where you are now..) With well maintained basic farming / very simple basic work to pay the maintanance.
The place where I went to made their money by organizing and selling handycrafts.
All you need is the location, the beds, the offer of monastery like life, and something that will guarantee you and your first 4 guests can live without any worry.
Once that is established, you put the first 4 guests so that 1 earns enough money for the next 4 and the other 3 maintain and improve the location while spending most of their time in studying and improving the studying facilities of the area (bringing books, improving librarires, so on).
The only real way to go somewhere is to create the somewhere you go to.
Get a small plot with 3-4 extra rooms in the countryside somewhere with a good cheap job that will pay you enough to take care of yourself, the property and anyone who visits. Put on a robe and hang a sign "Monastery, ask X for entrance into order" and just name it something.
There, you have your own monastery.
The teachings come from the facility (monastery itself) not the people in it. IF you found one with an open heart, only those with an open heart will gravitate to it, and you will always learn more
I'd recommend some good site in the US or possibly Argentina or other area with large enough tracts of unused land. (Costa Rica would work since thats where you are now..) With well maintained basic farming / very simple basic work to pay the maintanance.
The place where I went to made their money by organizing and selling handycrafts.
All you need is the location, the beds, the offer of monastery like life, and something that will guarantee you and your first 4 guests can live without any worry.
Once that is established, you put the first 4 guests so that 1 earns enough money for the next 4 and the other 3 maintain and improve the location while spending most of their time in studying and improving the studying facilities of the area (bringing books, improving librarires, so on).
The only real way to go somewhere is to create the somewhere you go to.
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