What is life in a monastery like | Tal Wilkenfeld and Lex Fridman

what was living in a monastery like it's the best what is what are we talking about like what it's just an empty room with like a tiny single bed and a sheet and a pillow and that's it that's it you have to eat the same thing as everyone what's the food like what is it very plain cheap basic food which is you know funny for someone like me because I'm I'm I'm pretty particular about my diet yeah you brought over like like 20 different ingredients yeah so what was the like day in the life of tall in a monastery you wake up at 5:00 a.m. to the bell and you go and meditate like constantly so till bedtime other than two meals what how are you sitting are you in a group is there other people there mhm and you're just sitting there well if you're talking about the Zen Monastery cuz I stayed in Zen mon Montery um and I did a thing with that um the guy was telling you about the kind of uh the integral Zen thing where he uses Ken Wilbur's work in combination with Zen that that's a little bit different because he does talks we talk about things um and that's very separate from the monaster like the vidanta monasteries I've stayed at which there's very little meditation in in terms of sitting silently instead we are meditating on the scriptures like the upanishads and we're like diving into that what were the differences the takeaways from the experiences the the two different the integral one and the uh the meditating on the scriptures they're both incredibly have been incredibly helpful to me because the Vidant um anytime I go into my head about something the the the answer is there based on this knowledge and with the Zen Monastery it's like you just got to put your your butt in the seat and sit and wait and maybe something will happen maybe it won't but just keep sitting and it's very disciplined and you go through a lot your body is purging a lot there's there's a lot and you don't necessarily the answers as to what is happening and so I think for somebody like me I need both I need to be in a place where there's complete uncertainty but complete discipline and just doing the regimented thing and then there's the me that feels very satisfied from an analytical standpoint understanding what's happening like what what is the gross and the subtle body and the you know like I want to understand these things about what it is to be a human so I I like them both understand what it means to be a human so that like having that patience and just sitting with yourself helps you do that yes more so like the analysis part Al so the anal the actual okay got it but sitting with yourself there's no better education yeah of like facing every demon and it's all going to come out and it's not going to be pretty mhm but then there's there's things that happen on the other side of it that are so profound have you met most of your demons I've met the demons that have come out oh there may be more who knows yeah okay well to be continued

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Length: 4min 5sec (245 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 16 2024