HOW to BECOME a MONK & WHY or NOT?

MAN GIVES UP EVERYTHING
In 2015, aged 47 an English businessman gave up everything and travelled Asia to find true happiness. Now a Buddhist Monk, living a simple life in Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, he shares the continuing story.
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Phra Dan (Bhante Dhammarakkhita, Bhikkhu) is a Theravada Buddhist Monk who lived in India from 2020, Thailand and now Sri Lanka. Born in Sussex, England in 1967. Educated by French Catholic Monks. A successful businessman in Estate Agency and Financial Services during the 1980's and 90's. Married, now divorced with 3 adult son's. 2000 marked change and travel including South Africa returning to the UK in 2003 to continue different work and business activities until 2012. Gradually materialistic values turned to renunciation, simplicity and meditation, living nomadically in an old Ford Transit van full time for 3 years. Van life and meditation led to Buddhism and a Thai Forest Tradition, Theravada Buddhist Monastery in the UK. During 2015 travelling the Buddhist Holy Sites of India, deep faith reinforced desire for Ordination. In 2020 after 5 years of intensive meditation practice between Thai Forest Monasteries in Thailand and England he was Ordained in India where he lived for 3 years until returning to Thailand in 2023 and now Sri Lanka.
Sabe Satta Sukhi Hontu
#englishmonk

[@brys.3131]

I really liked how you said that we are not running away from anything but instead we're getting into it. Well put and thank you!

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@Bowls_Svet]

This is a very worthy Master. I think his advice should be heeded.

[@englishmonk]

Be happy and stay well

[@MarkDaviesThailand]

Thank you Tan Phra Dan. The journey to becoming an Ajahn is even more arduous than I realised. You certainly need an extremely strong commitment. My total respect for all Bhuddist monks.🙏🙏🙏

[@englishmonk]

But an enjoyable journey...

[@ijikayuto2950]

Of course having here and there jhanic bliss

[@tonyrobin3124]

‘Mind is the forerunner of all things’. This is not referring to the thinking mind or personality but to Mind itself - Awareness, Beingness, Consciousness. No words can reach it because it’s the forerunner of all things - formless presence which we are and in which, through which everything appears. From the perspective of separation it’s the ‘other shore’. Discovering this is the whole point of all true spirituality.

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@ddeanw.3237]

Yes indeed! Thank you for posting this.

[@Subhash3271]

Straight talking! Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏

[@englishmonk]

Be happy and stay well

[@ddeanw.3237]

The "Ashtavakra Gita"; the "Avadhuta Gita"; the "Ribhu Gita" ... these are the ultimate "teachings". Can't go any "higher". Thank you.

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@ddeanw.3237]

@@englishmonk Yes! 🙏🙏

[@tarzan.CB.]

Your voice & accent is very calming. Asante.

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@senseiksan9721]

Thanks Phra Dan.......looking forward to the next video.🙏

[@englishmonk]

On its way my friend. Sukhi Hontu

[@fangshenlee2243]

Thank you for the infomation

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@AJ_real]

I'm on Carlos Castaneda's teachings, purely because I don't think I could take being bossed around in a monastery, but I got the discipline to practise the magical passes everyday.

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@peterbudd44]

Brilliant ... thanks.

[@englishmonk]

You're welcome it's my pleasure. Be happy and stay well

[@sanidasuwachirad3329]

🙏 🙏 🙏 anumodana sadhu sadhu sadhu for sharing your experience Tan Phra Dan 😊

[@englishmonk]

You're welcome, there's more to come on this subject. I hope you enjoy it. Sukhi Hontu

[@Rahul_Lata_]

Vandanami bhante ji 🙏 I am Rahul from India Thank you for your beautiful guidance 🙏

[@englishmonk]

You're welcome it's my pleasure. Be happy and stay well

[@avinashpawar51]

I wish to become monk too. May be after 2 years. I have attended 10 days vipasana courses in India and it has changed my life and perspective about how I look at life and buddhist teachings. But as an employee, I have certain responsibilities to work as well as towards my parents. So that I cant give enough time and energy to meditation practice. Your talks here helps a lot. Please let me know how can I make donation or offerings to you. Thank you 💐🌷🌺🌸🌹🌼🌻

[@englishmonk]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu on your good intention to become a monk. Yes it is important to take care of your responsibilities and duties which should also be considered as part of your practice. Mettā, loving kindness towards family and diligence in your work all counts towards your development and suitability for monastic life. With patience the time will come and with meditation and continual mindfulness in all your activities you will progress on the path towards Nibbana in the meantime. Anumodana Sukhi Hontu

[@englishmonk]

Yes, for Dāna offering there is a PayPal link in the channel description and my email for further information and address. Bhavatu Sabba Mangalam

[@chirovandenbos2339]

People are programmed robot slaves of the system thinking happyness starts with extern factors like status, money, material things that means nothing and its relativ and an illusion create by society.... If your happyness depend on extern factors you will never be because extern factors are endless. Happyness starts inside you. The more people around you, the more expectations, talk about others, comparing, judge, own benefits, hate, negativity, jealousy, double standards etc..... reflection of the broken empty souls. Alone or in solitude you have more strength, peace, power, happyness, freedom and time. I change my life also when i was 35 and now i am 43. No tv, social media, no people around me, no stuff etc.... Be the light in your life And of the day do what makes you happy

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@hatebreeder999]

I too wish to become monk someday. I am from jain tradition and practices and ordination are quite similar except jain monks live more harshly ascetic life. (some traditions dont eve wear cloths). My experience has taught me that Materialistic life does take toll on you over years

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@cactuscollection]

Sadhu 🙏

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@ricardostranslations9231]

Very helpful and clear. Thanks 🙏

[@englishmonk]

I'm happy it's useful. Thank you for watching and your comment

[@oldnewphotovideo]

My question is, how to buy a land and monastery and make that your own, being a foreigner. I personally like to have my own living and place. Beside that, Buddha did not consider rock art for Buddhism, he suggested to make that on fabric. Many monasteries do not care about that. I better like to have my own place. How to get it being a foreigner?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@bramteheunissen3806]

Thank you for sharing🙏🏼 Namaste Phra Dan

[@englishmonk]

Namaste. Thank you for listening. Sukhi Hontu

[@Sridevi.484]

I want be happy and peace.

[@englishmonk]

Then you shall. Sukhi Hontu

[@pawan25.6]

To know who i am and for enligntenment.❤❤

[@englishmonk]

Be happy and stay well

[@mojoryse7836]

❤

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@Lexthebarbarian]

My intentions are well thought out and serious. I intend to become a monk. I will contact you in the future when the opportunity arises. Have some things to finish in worldly life.

[@englishmonk]

Anumodana Sukhi Hontu

[@outsaneoutsane2747]

I've had so much benefit from following the buddhas teachings. Through letting go I have attained and do attain to so much bliss and often samadhi during meditation. But I can't get over the fact that when I let go of everything, everything that i am not (all i perveive) I am left with pure, blissful awareness, just seeing from my body, and I know it is what I AM, my true self and I know that everything else is also this when in samadhi. The only thing that stops me going further is the Buddhist idea there is no true self. it just doesn't align with my own insight. The buddha said 'come and see' and this is what I have done and this is what I see. Also, when I read the suttas, what I see is that the buddha was always pointing to this true self, through negative means, but it seems that traditional theravada does not inteprtet the suttas in the same way, and that is why I get a bit stuck with aligning theravada teachings with my own insight. Could you help me with this?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@outsaneoutsane2747]

@@englishmonk I watched the videos but didn't hear my question, did you answer it?

[@adamnaperty]

In pure samadhi you would not be left with any questions my friend.People want samadhi but samadhi itself comes and goes.Be that which is aware of samadhi.Then samadhi itself will loose the meaning and all questions and doubts will dissolve.

[@outsaneoutsane2747]

@adamnaperty there are no questions in samadhi, it's when I come out of samadhi I have the questions. And there's is no one who is aware of samadhi in samadhi, samadhi is a unified state of just pure awareness. The question is because the traditional theravada view of self does not align with my own insight. So either it is wrong or I am misaligning it with the teaching.

[@outsaneoutsane2747]

@@englishmonk did you answer this question?

[@bayreuth79]

There is no such thing as an entirely pure motivation for the monastic life.

[@bayreuth79]

@@sonjalingchungtsang1097 Unless you are Enlightened it seems to me that we always have profoundly mixed and complex motivations and that we cannot directly will an intention or motivation. Moreover, we have misconstrue our motivations, sometimes assuming that we were motivated by x, whereas we were motivated by y or a complex of motivations. It seems to me that our motivations are often driven by unconscious needs, wants and desires that we don't have immediate access to. The monk wants those entering the monastic life to have good motivations- but I am not sure that one ever has wholly good or right or appropriate motivations and intentions.

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@hariharry391]

🙏

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@trinhnguyenduy2537]

Amitabha Buddha!

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@artyyan2686]

He is putting it wrong, by happiness we mean happy in our day to day life’s not just feeling a emotion. Knowing that things can get hard and will get hard but remembering there is a light at the end of the tunnel. So this means that happiness is only truly active when in pursuit for something, not for the sake to be happy. And being monk is hard but you have similar friends around you and that’s what counts

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@Houdini_Bob]

it was refreshing to hear you talk about what life is actually like, that is isn't all rainbows and unicorns, that there are large spiders and snakes and insects and there is an upper age limit.

[@englishmonk]

I'm happy it's useful. Be happy and stay well

[@HelterSkelter07]

Thank you for sharing Tan Phra Dan. Could you please let me know the name of a few monastery in England? many thanks in advance.

[@englishmonk]

You're welcome it's my pleasure forestsangha.org/community/monasteries/continents/countries/united-kingdom Be happy and stay well

[@HelterSkelter07]

@@englishmonk many thanks

[@joeyavowal]

Thank you for sharing. I have tattoos, and am wondering how this would affect the dissolution of the self?

[@englishmonk]

Not at all with right view. There's no dissolution of self as there is no self. Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@PoopLoop202]

A question! Have you stayed at Wat Pah Nanachat? I was thinking of going there after my car lease was up in two years. They tell you what to bring, but it's still a bit vague. they say old fashioned alarm clock, do they mean an old plug-in type, or the kind that's a wind-up with bells on top? Any preference in sleeping bag color? and is it acceptable to bring a suitcase with me, or would it be better to bring a backpack/bedroll combo?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@oldnewphotovideo]

I can tell you, and it is a secret. Even if some Sri Lankan say, it is words of Buddha , many times that is not. Some politicians changed scriptures. Example: Buddha was in india Where nobody was killing cows. Even today, Indian restaurants don't offer beef. All that talk in Satipathana or Mahasatipathana about butcher and cow and cow's pieces is changed scriptures.

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@branthebrave]

Hello, what a wonderful video. I have a few related questions. What are the differences of each Theravada country in terms of Buddhism? (The ones foreigners seem to commonly go to are are Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar) Namely if one is better for whatever reasons as a monk specifically in their doctrines or ways of practice (or maybe specific schools will differ greatly too). How much of the language do you have to learn for each place? Did you have to learn any language completely? How many monasteries speak English? Do you know if it's a lot easier to learn Sinhala with a knowledge of Pali since they are similar? I have been learning quite a bit of Pali, so I wonder if knowing the local language makes the practice easier there? saadhu venerable sir.

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@poppyandezra6404]

I think the budda would say " eat more , you are to slim bro " . I respect you man . Coukd a type 1 diabetic be a monk ??

[@englishmonk]

I don't know exactly what type 1 diabetes is but it wouldn't necessarily be a problem

[@poppyandezra6404]

@@englishmonk thank you . Hope things are going ok for you . I learnt alot from your video

[@InvestigatorPierce]

​@@poppyandezra6404monks are thin... being thin also increases lifespan. Dont insult him.

[@soma_182]

"A person who wears robes of rags, lean, their limbs showing veins, meditating alone in the forest, that’s who I call a brahmin."

[@noonespecial4171]

Hello Phra Dan, I just listened to this recording and the part about going to Thailand to ordain, did I hear correctly you say that 'ordination did not go through for some reason or another?' I understand you were ordained in India, may I ask why you were unable to ordain in Thailand in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah yet are practising the Forest Tradition? What tradition was the ordination in India? I ask as it appears the Theravada tradition ls in Thailand consist of the Theravada tradition which focuses on the teachings and not Meditation whereas the Theravada Forest Tradition focuses on Meditation. Thank you 🙏

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@mackcarlo]

From my experience you can still become a Monk but enjoy ordinary social life and wear your own clothing, still eating meat and things like that.. I call it ‘the centre lane’. Somewhere between the two extremes can still work. I also found that Rowing on a Rowing machine (or any type of vigorous exercise in intervals) to be absolutely essential for building up the spiritual energy and fitness/endorphins required to arouse Kundalini. I don’t often see Monks in Gyms on Rowing machines so this worries me if I was to make the full jump into true Monkhood.

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@Amadeus.Amadeus]

Do you have any recommendations of Thai Forest Tradition monasteries that are accommodating to ordaining westerner’s with possible lifelong commitment?

[@englishmonk]

Wat Pa Nanachat or Wat Marp Jan. Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@bhavannamunni]

Can a monk practice physical exercise to incrrease health ?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@rjclue2630]

🤫 wait for it. I choose you. 😊

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@rjclue2630]

@@englishmonk remember muni. Sakiya. He is with me but not with you. Because you follow rituals and cycle. He was against all that. Remember that. Never look for peace. Always look to evolve and become a Buddha. Never say next life. You lie. This is now and it is all you have. But monk. I can’t blame you. You got comfortable with culture and housing and feeding around. That js dog animals nature. She js hunting tonight. Full moon 🌕 😂 Don’t worry. I still like you.

[@rjclue2630]

@@englishmonk because for you. And acting to be moral 😉 many lost their lives. 🌹 don’t be with them. They are using you. 🤫 Brother ;)

[@stevenbelzer9768]

That’s a nice way to explain and characterize The Practice two extremes …no practice , being a Monk and lay practice as “The Middle Path “ in this Saha World . The SANGA gives Mutual Support in following the N8FPath .. and retreat from distractions and “sensual pleasure “ This Dharma is Deep and difficult to understand . This generation is attached to sensual pleasure, clings to sensual pleasure . They have much dust in their eyes . Teaching those who have little understanding, who cling to sensual pleasure would be tiresome for me “

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@spytechchronicles]

I am ready to renunciate. I do not want anything in life. I want to be free of all bondage. What is the way to heal my past and Forgive myself. What is the starting point to become a monk?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@AmanKumar-yo4yr]

I want to join but my family attached me

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@zappthezapper33]

What happened to your finger? I am asking because I had a severe accident two months ago, lost a finger and the remaining ones (of that hand) are pretty damaged. So I may never able to work in my profession again. Even before the accident I was thinking about becoming a Buddhist monk, because Vipassana meditation changed me a lot for the better. Now having experienced that there is absolutely no refuge in the world, how everything can be destroyed in a second I am looking to get established deeper in the Dhamma

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@bhavannamunni]

Do you live alone without other monks or pagogda ?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@italogiardina8183]

The nation state that makes the political structure with international financial systems that in a sense governs citizens seems far removed in values from religious enclaves in the form of either new religious movements (NRM) or denomination like Theravada Buddhism as a world religion in line with historical Buddhism. The person who opts out of the contemporary citizen model into the religious model in a sense rejects values of what where a constructed self embedded within secular polities and the scientific paradigm from early modernism. The paradigm is complex but one reason cited for opting out is the mitigation of personal pain. If this mitigation had been through the health care sector then trust in medical system of knowledge is the solution and people feel good. But pain is also about self in society and self evaluation within group dynamics where persons can become unhinged through alienation with the construction of self over time. It seems an option for a cohort of persons to have reasons to build forms of social and cultural capital and personal resilience within a world religion or NRM. If there is a need for a specific form of pain mitigation that is existential in nature rather than functional in content then the question is how does contemporary Theravada Buddhism that has various national expressions in line with the nation state solve this existential malaise? Do these enclaves promote the conditions for a person whose values were embedded in forms of global secularism to flourish? So to flourish entails only those who self identify a need to mitigate existential (social low self esteem for example as loneliness epidemic or eschatological purpose identified as meaning of my existence if any) pain given the medical system is efficient at mitigating functional pain? The answer seems in line with the corporate sector in that you can try before you buy which is fair enough, but I sense there is a subtle traditional component of social capital as outlined through stages of accruing merit.

[@englishmonk]

Following the teachings of the Buddha is enough. The rest is debate/comparison of religious and non religious conventions which does not help anyone. Sukhi Hontu

[@italogiardina8183]

@@englishmonk Seems the answer is yes pertaining to enclaves allowing individual flourishing and as to compare and contrast it seemed to be what your advocating prior to commitment so it is of use when taking on a commitment based on reflective learning about modes of self help and communitarianism. Thank you

[@carnalcryptcorporalunsolve9464]

Why we call you bhantey in India 🇮🇳? Means?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@clayclayton9819]

Would watching videos like this be considered entertainment?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@LiamVandeth]

How do you find people/monastery with a serious nature but also a laughing buddha joyfull character cause I did the 10day retreat and it sucked so bad way to serious and uncompassionate made me feel so excluded and angry. is this possible?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@Septemberhello]

Can elderly of 60 plus become monk

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@LiveYourLifeWithJoy]

Hi 🙏 Any monastery or temple u would recomend to ordain? 🙏 I am currently in India, running out of money and life options, as our precious time runs out 😆🤪🤪🤪😇🙏🙇‍♂️

[@englishmonk]

It depends where you are from. The ordination process begins in your country of origin. I currently travelling but will talk about this more soon. Be happy and stay well.

[@LiveYourLifeWithJoy]

@@englishmonk to ordain in Thailand I don't need to go back to my country. I was Just asking if you have any recommendation, that was all. Thank you anyway 🙏

[@LiveYourLifeWithJoy]

@@englishmonk P.S.: and I mean to really ordain in some Temple or Monastery, not with electronics and traveling around, you know? 🙏

[@englishmonk]

Wat Pa Nanachat or Wat Marp Jan

[@IowaLanguages]

Do monks or nuns get asked to leave if they don’t do well?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@pakidevstuff5769]

Are tattoos allowed? Even the not exposed ones?

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@satyamthewarrior]

what about not using technology or using phone to talk to Parents? When I become Buddhist Monk, I am going to renunciate all the technology and phone. Completely cut off from the world.

[@englishmonk]

Yes it's usually advisable if not compulsory that you do at least for the first few years until your higher ordination.

[@RSVPrr]

Im sick of humanity. Maybe becoming a monk would be a cure

[@englishmonk]

We can only cure ourselves and whether a monk or lay person the same difficulties are there within our minds. Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@Socrates5976]

I feel the same

[@joelgoble4987]

Perhaps a better opportunity for transcendence of your state of humanity?

[@Socrates5976]

@@joelgoble4987 You're right, but sometimes it's just so hard

[@joelgoble4987]

@@Socrates5976 seems to me mining for gold (🧘) is as much effort as mining for pyrite (🦧)...❤️

[@khwaac]

Cobras and spiders, I'm out

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@IowaLanguages]

Please eat. You seem very thin. ❤

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@rjclue2630]

why are you becoming a monk. abductees; cuz its cool. later few moments. monk charged with all sorts of 😂

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@rjclue2630]

@@englishmonk boss. I am just human life. I know what happens after death. And even beyond. Why fake religion am asking.

[@rjclue2630]

@@englishmonk even after you dead and come alive. Manythings needs to change. And I have my rights. If you don’t want me. You will die in vain. Go ask Buddha. He said same things. Why argue with me. Am beyond time. But am in this human body now. It’s funny. We have no power if we know how to ask her.

[@rjclue2630]

If you really believe in Buddha come change me. If not. If you are a fake monk. Go practice. Many monk run away when am close to them. 😂 Am not against them. They are against my team. Am not alone. Alone is not true. But alone is also I know. Later I will. 🤫

[@rjclue2630]

Am just human. I did yoga. I did mediation. Something evolved. But I also want you to understand. Bu and Dha. Buddha is not a person.

[@krystisnbalakowski3361]

Definitely looks fake..

[@englishmonk]

Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu

[@addisontmz8295]

🙏

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@pallav5833]

So many rules, labels, and status hierarchies. How irritating.

[@englishmonk]

Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.

[@vijerathnebanda8116]

How beautiful is the life of a monastic monk. Sadhu

[@englishmonk]

Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu

[@FRED-gx2qk]

Greeting Phra Dan how are the dogs? Gecko saying Correct Bhante ! Are you Left or right handed ?

[@englishmonk]

They're good I'm sure and I'm right handed.

[@LALIAinspired]

Actually, it would be very helpful if you could kindly show those spiders & other creatures since they happen to be my biggest concern in consideration going forth, next to what my parents would feel about me choosing the monastic life.

[@englishmonk]

I'm not a photographer or videographer so what you see is it. There are more creatures in videos from my time in Thailand. As for your parents, ask them. You need their permission to ordain anyway. Be happy and stay well

[@LALIAinspired]

Thank you so much for your kind reply 🙏🙏🙏@@englishmonk

[@tonymchenery2353]

Very good 👌

[@englishmonk]

Sukhi Hontu

[@greatsageequaltoheaven]

The last two years I just genuinely want to achieve monk's non human calm nature and strong mind and body I didn't even remember when I got this passion... For now I wanna try traveling to China (because I'm not sure where I can actually achieve my goals), but i don't know where my journey ends and teo this point i would gladly just let my life flow me through this somehow in any way possible I will sit outside monastery/temple months if I needed to Thank you for your knowledge and video in general! It's very helpful, for me actually yes

[@englishmonk]

You could just go and stay in a monastery to consider ordination. It would be more fruitful than sitting outside. Be happy and stay well. Sukhi Hontu

[@greatsageequaltoheaven]

I just assumed it wouldn't be polite Thanks for your answer and again thanks for sharing your wisdom with us all

[@englishmonk]

To the contrary you would be welcome. I'm not sure where you are from but maybe there is a monastery more easily accessible to you than in China?

[@greatsageequaltoheaven]

Sadly, I don't know what in that case would be better, I don't have much of experience. As far as I know China, and Tibet, is closest to me for traveling. But in second case, information about documents and other things that needed to live in Tibet is more private, China is more understandable for me. But perhaps if you personally think that other places would be better and more welcoming to start my journey, I'd like to hear it

[@englishmonk]

Thailand