Originally posted by Bontakun
Well... 1/2 1/2, I got my stories & I recovered ages
ago...
& as for da guy who tinkin of bcuming a monk: BGR is not scary,
da human mind is... dat aside if yoo tink being a monk can evade
all dat, yoo r WRONG. Yoo r escaping from reality & yoo dun
wanna face it. Is dat wat yoo wan?
Life is abt experiencing, juz imagine when yoo r "dying"
(touchwood! got any blockheads here?), yoo wld tink thru wat yoo
have done, wat yoo may regret not doin, wat yoo wanna try to do but
never did... Wld yoo go in peace?
True, many things yoo experience may not be good, infact I believe
we ALL experience more bads den goods. BUT bcoz we experienced all
those things, at least we noe wat its like, how we felt, wat can we
do abt it, how we can handle it shld there be a 2nd time. I can
safely sae, "Good or bad. We've done it & dun regret it." dat
BARS all things dats against yr conscious, like theft, lie, murder,
peeping into gal bathing, etc, etc...
Besides I've read alot of BGR probs in AA here & found dat its
actually not dat serious, its juz how 1 handles da prob dat matters
& I tell yoo, escaping from it is not 1... Being a monk is
another matter, if yoo ready to let go of ALL emotions,
attachments, everything... den go ahead be my guest & take da
tonsure.
Ok, consultation fee = $12. Yoo can repay mee by treating mee a
meal sometime. -oo-
it's not just to escape from BGR that I'm taking the tonsure,
it's also to work towards enlightenment so that I can see all
sufferings like nothing, and BGR is like redundant. A cultivated
person won't think of so many "what ifs".