Why I want to run away and join a monastery

"When I started feeling like the wealthiest man alive...
I knew I was onto something"


This is almost as simple to explain as Quantum Theory. As in, I'm grossly simplifying things and sticking to reasons I can reasonably communicate. One of the troubles of Buddhism is, when you start talking about the true benefits of it... no-one believes you :). So I have to stick with the believable stuff :(.

In the video I talk about Ajahn Brahmavamso whom is perpetually featured on my channel.
Also his talks in MP3 format are available here:
http://www.bswa.org/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=4
They are excellent and more than worth the time! His target audience are not so much people who want to know about Buddhism, but people who are having a bit of trouble making sense of this crazy old world and the other people in it ;).

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[tomorrowslunch]

I love the Australian-ness of this video. I love to hear such dedication to the Dhamma in my own accent, the Australian accent. ^^ I wish you great success in your monkish endeavours. 

[Ratergray]

@tomorrowslunch hahah, this video was 100% New Zealand made :P. Thanks though :).

[davencarp1991]

I completely agree with you. I have been interested in Buddhism for a long while now particularly Theravadan Buddhism and I stumbled on Ajahn Brahm's youtube Dhamma talks about 6 months ago.

I would love to enter a monkish life but I only meet two problems:

1. I have a deep love for playing and listening to music.. would be very hard to give up..

2. I have not been fully convinced on the major concept of Anatta.

[Ratergray]

@davencarp1991

1) Sometimes hard is good...

2) That's not really a problem. The reality of anatta is to be experienced and only experience is convincing. People can cause themselves a lot of grief trying to understand/accept things which are meant to be experienced and I think people use 'anatta' as a bit of a club to beat people over the head with. It's actually just a mark of conditioned phenomena, anatta is not a teaching/philosophy in and of itself. Take it with the dhamma as a whole.

[Ratergray]

@davencarp1991

1) Sometimes hard is good...

2) That's not really a problem. The reality of anatta is to be experienced and only experience is convincing. People can cause themselves a lot of grief trying to understand/accept things which are meant to be experienced and I think people use 'anatta' as a bit of a club to beat people over the head with. It's actually just a mark of conditioned phenomena, anatta is not a teaching/philosophy in and of itself. Take it with the dhamma as a whole.

[primitiveform]

I'm interested in becoming a monk that has a career and is allowed to be married. I want to be a monk but improve the world as well. I'm majoring in psychology. Can somebody tell me what kind of Buddhist monks can do this?

[Ratergray]

It is good to ordain as a Monk, and if you watch some of Ajahn Brahm's videos you'll know a Monk can do a lot to improve the world.

But please note that being a Monk comes part and parcel with Celibacy and not having a worldly livihood. There is no such thing as a Monk who is married and has a career - that would be a lay person.

The power and impact of a Monk, comes precisely from the fact that he has abandoned those things - to other people, it shows clearly that there is another way.

[BuddhaJampel]

YES...I want to run away to, there is not a day that goes by that i don't think about the life of a simple Monk.

[moneymasterjet]

right on!

[leviathan6]

would love to hear about your experiences lately!

[VisualLearningZone]

@BuddhaZenMind

cool thanks alot for letting me know :)

[BuddhaZenMind]

@VisualLearningZone He did ordain in the end in March 2011....His name now is Nandiya Samanera (novice monk) and lives at Santi Forest Monastery in Bundanoon, Australia.

[VisualLearningZone]

did you join a monastery and become a monk yet?

[Dice3000]

post an update !

[unapologeticmind]

Better in thatcase become a Cistercian monk in that case, at least they are useful for the wider community while dedicating their life to a higher cause...

[Geopati727]

What is your status my friend? Did you join? How are you? I just stumbled onto this video. I thank you for it. I am on a different path, but a similar goal.

[Bonersoup183]

Im 12 and i wish i was born into monastery life. i really want to become a monk its such a beautiful simple life.

[eLeMeNtsKaTeRgUy96]

Hey this video was made a couple years ago, did you ever leave and fulfil your monk desires?