What purpose does monastic life serve in religious traditions?

Answer 1

to remove you from the distractions of secular life and to see the spirituality of very simple things -like the interconnectedness of life in gardening, or how we take for granted a simple glass of water, it all comes down to amplifying reflection by removing distractions

Answer 2

Hello, ...Baritone:

In early history, people tried to prove their spirituality by isolating themselves from the world--this even included pole sitting, etc. These people became spectacles and some of them quite famous.

Then groups were formed like the Franciscan Monks. They isolated themselves for study, transcribed books, and other useful arts. This branched into Friars, who fiddled for a fish, and had a certain amount of religious entertainment--it served a good purpose because CD players weren't invented yet.

But, as far as the Bible is concerned, one must not hide their light under a bushel, Christ designed that His followers participated in the glorious work of spreading the Good news, that salvation has come to this planet.

I do not blame anyone for being a religious skeptic, Christians have historically done a worse job in reflecting God's nature to others than the Jews did in the O.T.

However, He gives us enough information to justify faith in His existence and the heavenly lifestyle He advocated in the 10 Commandments. One such faith-building site requires a little intelligence to decipher the hidden code in the only part of the Bible that says "these words are sealed and closed until the end of the days." check it at the link below.

Blessings, One-Way

Answer 3

Every human being has a monastic predisposition. Monastics are those people who strive for interior unity and openness to the absolute. Even those who speak of divine revelation will admit that revelation has not yet arrived until it has become our experience, ultimately your own personal experience and mine.

Monastic life helps to allow an experiential awareness of communion with Ultimate Reality. In a sense, it doesn’t matter whether Ultimate Reality is conceived in a theistic or in a non-theistic sense. Nor does it matter whether the awareness of which we are speaking bursts in on us in one overwhelming breakthrough, or seeps into our consciousness slowly and almost imperceptibly. What does matter is that communion with the Ultimate becomes our own personal experience.

It is possible for persons who are not monks or nuns to experience this communion with the Ultimate. But the purpose of monastic life is to foster this experience.

Answer 4

Monastic life was usually in charge of the teaching tradition as they studied and transcribe the bible into different languages.

Answer 5

In a monastery, you are free to contemplate the divine without the distraction of the outside world, but also supported in a community of like minded people working toward a common goal of enlightenment/atonement.

Answer 6

Freshbliss said it best, it's about removing distractions.

Just as a cool aside, I am reading a book about the history of the middle ages. When the monasteries first started, they had one simple rule to get in. If you want to be a monk, you had one full year to memorize the ENTIRE book of Psalms, come back and repeat it aloud. If you did it, you got in. Pretty amazing, huh?

Answer 7

apparently Christians think of it is to reproduce at as youthful an age as a probability and function babies until their uderus falls out, and right this is what I wanna understand, in case your purpose in existence is to easily make extra of you, what's the appropriate objective?? 3 words for all you youthful Christian ladies... stay YOUR existence

Answer 8

I would think sincere honest inward long-term reflection.
And perhaps to become in tune with other things you may have not sensed in the past. (it's a noisy, busy world out there)

Answer 9

It's about totally devoting your life to God and service.

Answer 10

life is a crucible, yet religious people want to have their cake and eat it too.