I'm 34 now and life is getting on. My parents want rid of me and I have no money to live anywhere else. I cant work cause I have nervous disability and to be honest I am too scared to live alone. Maybe I should just join the monastery in France and accept I dont realy fit into this life. Its such a dificult decision. No sarcasm please be nice.
2007-04-23 09:58:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You could fit into it. If you join you could devote the rest of your life to others and God.
2007-04-23 10:03:36 · answer #1 · answered by rybka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, you should not join a monastery as an escape from the world. You should only enter one if you know you are called by God to a life of prayer and service.
You should seek help. If you are so disabled that you can't work, then you'll need to find yourself a home. The government should be able to help you.
Being a monk is a sacred calling...not a last resort.
2007-04-23 10:05:20 · answer #2 · answered by Misty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could you go live with someone else? Or have a roommate, so you aren't living on your own? I am not be sarcastic. I am just asking. Could you go to your doctor and get some medicine for your problem? You could work at Goodwill. They hire people with disabilities. I don't think you should join the monestary.
Or how about becoming a missionary. You need money for that.
2007-04-23 10:16:12 · answer #3 · answered by blazek35 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you feel the call from God to serve the Lord in this way, then do it! There are many orders to choose from. A couple are completely hermetic, while others are pretty social, for monks (such as the Benedictines). Pray on it and give it to God!
2007-04-23 10:12:30 · answer #4 · answered by irish_giant 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
P'ang is right. The priests make you prepare you could sustain your dedication for an prolonged quantity of time earlier they're going to ordain you ... 3 years, a minimum of. it particularly is my experience with the communities of Tibetan Buddhist priests interior the U.S. and Canada. As a monk, you would be anticipated to serve in in spite of means is needed. my very own instructor, a Tibetan and a monk because age 13, exchange into assigned to Canada to stay and instruct at a dharma midsection in my city. His existence is a lot from the quiet, contemplative existence you're thinking of. bear in mind too, that the priests interior the Asian steamy warm jungle countries ... sit down nonetheless whilst bugs flow slowly over them, a number of them stinging bugs. this is not that idyllic particularly. And my lama tells us that persons have tiffs and factions interior the monasteries, basically as everywhere else interior the international. we don't lose our humanity or our flaws as quickly as we connect the monastery, he says. ultimately, you're able to do your Buddhism practices everywhere you're. as a remember of actuality, your cutting-edge existence is nice for doing Buddhism. every person can prepare persistence while they are on my own in a cave meditating .. it takes actual braveness and dedication to overview persistence once you're surrounded by employing stressful circumstances. except your ecosystem provides you stressful circumstances (so which you will discover the place you like greater artwork), how do you recognize that your "peace" is unquestionably peace and not basically a loss of inflammation on your outdoors existence? All too frequently, people who think of they elect to be a monk are petrified of existence and its stressful circumstances, and are in seek of for a metaphorical womb to flow slowly lower back into. This does no longer something to enhance non secular growth.
2016-10-13 07:26:18 · answer #5 · answered by ghil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry for you,I think you should see a doctor,You should be entitled to social security disability,and low income housing.
To join a monastery may make your life more difficult.
2007-04-23 10:13:39 · answer #6 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, a monestary...I want to be a priest, I'm 14. A monestary from what I know is a group of monks, of an order, that stay and live there, they are only next to there other monks, brothers. If you find that God wants you to join a monestary then go ahead. I wish you luck, God bless.
2007-04-23 10:03:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look get yourself some professional help regarding this, approach a few monastries and speak to the vocations director.
2007-04-23 10:11:52 · answer #8 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask God to deliver you in faith its obvious that Satan has brought this on you.Ask God to remove it, turn over your SSI
disability and walk by faith and be a man in Jesus Name
2007-04-23 10:09:35 · answer #9 · answered by ansearcher@sbcglobal.net 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dont do that. Its not going to do you any good.
2007-04-23 10:18:28 · answer #10 · answered by sxanthop 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋