/lit/ - Literature

>>18817194
QRD on monks? There was a literal monk kid at my middle school. Bald with the robe in OP's pic and everything.

The imitation of Christ

>>18817194
Wish I could be a monk like brother cadfael. solving murders and growing medicinal herbs.

Rule of St. Benedict
Whatever translations of the vinaya pitaka there are
A Canticle for Leibowitz

>>18817194
Christian monk? Buddhist monk? What type of monk?

>>18817194
The Brothers Karamazov

>>18817629
He said a real monk lmfao
>Christian monk
Get the fuck out of here

>>18817194
Thomas Merton

>>18817194
The go-to book is Thomas Merton, The Seven-Storey Mountain.

>>18817194
the whole theravada canon is about bieng a monk

>>18817695
>He said a real monk lmfao
>>Christian monk
>Get the fuck out of here
What do you mean by this? I have never seen anyone claim Christian monks are somehow 'not real' monks before.

Look, I know you don't have any christian monks in America (it being prottie land and all) but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

>>18817194
The Monk

>>18817793
You're so nice lmao.

>>18817793
we do have some monks in the US

>>18817845
You could say she's a lil' Hamlet

>>18817793
>brother makakos, the skull kollektor

>>18817194
name of the rose
not a book, a film, but Andrei Rublev

>>18817194
Anyone know any autobiography of forest monks or other ascetics?

>>18817194

>>18817793
>you don't have any christian monks in America
Not even true.

>>18817917
http://dhammatalks.net/Books2/Maha_Boowa_Phra_Acharn_Mun_The_Meditation_Master.pdf
This biography of Ajahn Mun is pretty interesting. It's hard to find monks who want to write about themselves, since most of them just want to write about the teachings.

>>18817979
thanks!

>>18817621
Hi!
Do You know there is a superb radiodrama from Canticle?

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_C85B2DyxpdrKRqV40znp2zOGHKsRl-4

>>18817793
I genuinely love when Christianity is overt about death

>>18817609
sounds comfy

>>18817979
>You'll find the real Buddhism only in east Asia

>>18820564
>just imagine how lost he would be

>>18817194
DUDEEE
>procure requirements needed to be a neet
>be a neet everyday
>but instead of doing usual neet shit u just spend HOURS EVERYDAY doing satipatthana meditation and other buddist/hindu meditation shit

there u go is it that hard why would u need a 'book' the whole monk lifestyle is made to remove your interactions with the stupidities of the world as much as possible so u dont get sucked into this story or that story
the neets are almost exactly doing that without realizing

>>18822982
monks cannot handle money though so you'd need to have a relative handle the money for you

>white "buddhist" monk
I hate these LARPers so much, absolutely disgusting

>>18817695
But the very word "monk" comes from christian origin.

>>18823076
I have my doubts toward these people who go live in Sri Lanka or whatever to become monks, but at least it's not McBuddhist yoga clubs.
Sometimes you see black priests from Africa in Catholic countries, do you think they're LARPers too (actually asking)?

>>18817194
Medieval Monasticism (C.H Lawrence)
Life of St Athony.
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
The rule of St. Benedict.

>>18820564
People like the friendly monks that just live in temples and do blessings and sell amulets. Ajahn Mun was living in caves fighting demons all night.
We have this in the west too. Most Christians like the friendly pastor that doesn't talk about sin or hell. But we still have authentic Christianity here I would say
>>18823076
Yuttadhammo is legit. You can tell because he sits indian style even when armrests get in the way.

>>18823157
>Most Christians like the friendly pastor that doesn't talk about sin or hell.
I'd really like to talk with a friendly American neighborhood pastor, all the ones on YT look like weirdos

>>18823088 (checked)
>Sometimes you see black priests from Africa in Catholic countries
Well, many African countries are majority Catholic, or at least have sizable Catholic minorities, so that's legit I suppose. But an African Buddhist would also be a LARPer, yes.

>>18823076
The buddha was blond. Buddhism is a product of the indo-european invasion

>>18823215
Maybe not the best analogy
I've seen Asian priests tho!

>>18823486
absolutely blessed

>>18817194
The writings of Saint Silouan the Athonite.

>>18823088
>Sometimes you see black priests from Africa in Catholic countries, do you think they're LARPers too (actually asking)?
Yes, African Catholicism is practically voodoo and is full of retarded and objectionable shit. The Exorcist is a documentary to them.

>>18817194
>e
FYDOR AND The money >ib4wazzandgo
any good fold chakra book.
miami vice epuiisodez.
diurtinal paper jutullips dog leafed pepper asorber papyus.

jointa a& eddgarallenpoe

>>18823796
kek

>>18823076
You've got it backwards. The LARP is doing hot yoga in Midtown and buying a buddha statue for your brothel of an apartment. Some dude going to a legit monastery is actually practicing the religion.