/lit/ - Literature

>>11977713
BK

>>11977772
What is that?

>>11977713
The White Company (briefly)
Last Canticle for Leibowitz
>>11977788
Brothers Karamazov I imagine

>>11977800
Thanks :)
What about The Way of Pilgrim?

>>11977800
>Canticle for Leibowitz

YES

this thread interests me

>>11977713
Just thought of Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Not Christian, but it's based on monastic life.

>>11977713
Magister Ludi

The Name of the Rose is maximum comfy

>reminder
Renounce the flesh. Temper your desires while lessening your appetite. Lessen your labors and remain in your cell. Do this and you will know peace.

how about we widen the search to books about religious hermetic life in general

>>11977983
that's not a religious hermit that's terry jones

>>11978009
that's a jpeg on a weeb image posting site

>>11978033
stop sending me squiggly lines

We do much discussion here on /lit/ regarding the tiers of profession, as to which rank the 'most /lit/'.
Doubtless, nothing can top the monastic life. By renouncing everything, you gain everything. Nothing depends on validation or approval, the pursuit of riches, or power, or things of the flesh. There is no admiration or respect from most outsiders and most monastics sever all ties from the world they previously knew. By overcoming these, they gain more than even the most accomplished people. A perfect contentment. It is often seen by outsiders, even by religious people as a "waste" of life, but in reality, it is the way to extract the most contentment and ride the highest plateaus of joy out of it.

'Let your soul therefore turn always:
"Not to what is most easy, but to what is hardest;
"Not to what tastes best, but to what is most distasteful;
"Not to what most pleases, but to what disgusts;
"Not to matter of consolation, but to matter for desolation rather;
"Not to rest, but to labor;
"Not to desire the more, but the less;
"Not to aspire to what is highest and most precious, but to what is lowest and most contemptible;
"Not to will anything, but to will nothing;
"Not to seek the best in everything, but to seek the worst, so that you may enter for the love of Christ into a complete destitution, a perfect poverty of spirit, and an absolute renunciation of everything in this world.

of gods and men is a wonderful film
(the history of 90's algeria is insightful)

in great silence is a fantastic documentary

>>11978066
Andrei Rublev by Tarkovsky is worth mentioning too.

i feel a picture of a raven is warranted

>>11978112
To what purpose?

>>11977713
the rule of st. benedict

>>11978046
A monk who serves his community is the only path in this life that doesn't deserve criticism in one way or another.

is there any equivalent of The Water Margin but for western monks? It is prime /comfy/core and I was wondering if there was any western books of monks doing funny hi-jinks

>>11978112
natural beauty and a representation of singular intelligence devoid of the groupthink of humanity and entirely beholden to the omnipotent sublimity of God.

>>11978157
I WISH

>>11978112
>>11978189
The raven never came back to Noah. The dove did.

>>11977713
There’s a brief monastic bit at the end of The Recognitions

Also The Monk

Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard.

Name of the Rose, very comfy except for all the deaths

>>11978241
they're all god's creatures.
The corvids have a sense of agency that other birds don't have. they have the Promethean weight on their shoulders that humans have but they don't have the the eternal sin. They're god's little tricksters.

Dove's may be more holy but the crow family captures my imagination and make me chuckle.

I don't equate them with evil and darkness as they are depicted in contemporary symbolism.

There's never a bad reason to post a pic of a crow.

Verity

>>11978288
>>11978282

I like how you've had a cursory read through the thread before posting

>>11978304
I saw it and posted it anyway because fuck you.

>>11977713
How do I become a monk?

>>11978336
https://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Monk

>>11978309
where do you live?

seriously. where do you live?
i want to meet you irl

>>11978309
Same desu

>11978299
How did you become so ravenpilled? Teach me your ways.

Merton, The Seven-Story Mountain.

Comfy, and addresses most of your how-to-become-a-monk questions.

Marmion, Christ, the Ideal of the Monk = a fine exposition of the ideals of monastic spirituality.

Both Merton and Marmion struggled quite a bit with their first few years living the rigors of monastic life. (Michael Mott's bio "The seven Mountains of Thomas Merton" seems to offer a fair and balanced take on the wayward aspects of the last few years of Merton's spiritual journey.)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851577/

I know it's not a book but still worth recommending

>>11977962
Says a guy that daily lurks a japanese porn website. Go back to pol, LARPer incel american autist.

>>11977713
B O N A V E N T U R E

's life of saint francis

>>11980117
"do as i say not as i do", anon

>>11977713
sayings of the desert fathers is also an excellent example of the pre-benedictine early christian monks

>>11980117
/lit/ is the final stage of 4chan. Almost free of this place. The monastic desire is representative of this.

>>11977788
Burger King

>>11980488
>tfw you're totally right

>>11977713
I Was a Monk: The Autobiography of John Tettemer

>>11978157
Robin Hood
>Friar Tuck

>>11977824
I'm reading this right now and it's incredible.

>>11977962
Is lessening your labor really a monastic concept? Seems to me that the Desert Fathers and the early orders all stressed labor, both physical and spiritual.

>>11981343
Labor is not a punishment. Decreasing it so you can set your mind right is sometimes needed, as clearly is the case when battling the flesh.

bump, great thread

>>11977713
Melmoth the Wanderer

>>11977713
OP Here.
I found out Tolstoy wrote a short story Called Father Sergius that offers a different take on the monastic life .
There's a movie based on it as well

Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time for Silence

>>11977713
Can I get a name on the artist? I'm looking for some dry etching recs

>>11978063

What's this from?

>>11980488
Divine dubs

Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds by Jocelin of Brakelond

Settle in for MAXIMUM COMFY account of a 13th century English order, including the monk's small disagreements, especially in electing a new Abbot, the new Abbots' administration, seeking to pay off the debts to the jews that the previous Abbot incurred, and of course, descriptions of feasts.

Fucking top shelf, anyone have anything comparable from Buddhist orders?

>>11977929
mein neger

>>11978063
so theyre fucking kids because St, John okayed it?

>>11980488
You're right. I rarely ever post anymore and /lit/ is the only board I still browse. This is the last post for me guys I'm leaving for good.
It was fun while it lasted.

>>11985279
I agree, maybe I'm too old for this site or it just doesn't have anything else to give me.
3 years is probably not much if compared to other anons, but that was enough for me.
Once this thread dies I'll leave.

>>11977713
The Glass Bead Game

>>11984916
Vinaya, mate.

>>11985398
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0174.xml
http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/The%20Earliest%20Vinaya%20and%20the%20Beginnings%20of%20Buddhist%20Literature_Frauwallner.pdf

>>11985398
>>11985400
Thanks bro.

https://knizhen-pazar.net/index.php?option=add_book&id=1414193&title=%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%20%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%86%D0%B8%20%D0%B8%20%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%20%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%82

Cвeтoгopcки oтци и cвeтoгopcки живoт

written by Starets Stefan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuziQsUrbeM&t=14s

>>11977788
Banjo Kazooie.

>>11979034
Seconding this Merton

bump.

>>11977713
The Philokalia. Except it isn't comfy. It will kick your ass.

>>11978066
Thank you so much for reminding me I saw that movie. You unlocked a memory for me. Good times - i was lucky enough to catch it in theaters.

Also seconding Bk although I’m not sure I’d agree with comfy and it’s pretty ambiguous, but Zosima’s speeches still often resonate with me.

Thomas Merton is pretty cool

>>11978259
The monk is a rip roaring ride I remember being 20 and reading it In like a day and a half of rapture

>>11977713
Anyone here go visit monasteries?

"The Cloud of Unknowing." Most editions I've seen also include the short companion "The Book of Privy Counseling."

>>11977788
Bend kudes

>>11990050
I stayed for a while at deer park monastery, Vietnamese zen tradition, in Escondido. The abbot looked me in the eyes and asked me if I was going to stay, as in take vows. It’s tempting.

>>11990452
One of the monks was a former catholic priest thich nhat hanh named “young brother”, he was like 80 when he took his vows, spry dude, about half the monks there are from France and one of them rips a mean pvc didgeridoo and beatboxes while he does it. He does this in the common room where lay people sit around and have tea - periodically asking if he’s being too loud disrupting their inane conversation while he’s becoming a conduit for some physical order.

Also a couple solid table tennis matches.

Good times

>>11990050
have stayed in Buddhist monasteries in Asia, as well as Catholic monasteries in Europe.