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 Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:39 am
I'm curious to see how many people here would ever consider being ordained as a monk or a nun. Why would you want to? Why would you not want to? What are some of the benefits, you perceive as being offered by ordination? What are some of the challenges you think you would face be being ordained? Do you think you could keep all the necessary vows?
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:33 pm
I have been considering it in the event of me failing high school and not being able to become a Naturopathic Doctor or an Artist or anything else that involves my interests and passions. Except...Buddhism is one of my interests. I...confused myself. rofl
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:19 am
You can become on of those doctor monks, run a clinic in rural Tibet or India, Soujiro. smile
I am considering it, in the event of the loss of my husband. I think it would be a good next step. As for challenges...the sitting thing is always a challenge. I'm figety, so parking my butt for hours on end is really, really hard. xd
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:06 am
As it is with most people who become ordained in any religion, in my elder years if I have had the love of my life and lost him, the rest of my family gone and fufilled in my career, I would most certainly become part of the monkhood. Especially for such a beautiful religion as Buddhism. In my youth I want to experience far too much to give it all up by becoming a monk...but who knows what the future holds?
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:17 pm
I thought about this for a while, actually.. Maybe more of a foolish first reaction to Buddhism, but then again, maybe gut reactions have some value. But I have noticed this desire to completely devote myself to a religion. I think that, in and of itself, would go against the idea of becoming Buddhist monk, for why become attached to the philosophy that is helping you to separate from your attachments? It could potentially turn into a nasty loop.
There are other slight detractions as well, sexuality and gender, etc. Nothing serious at all, but they are potential complications to devotion, if that makes any sense.
In the end, I simply wonder, where would I be more useful: as a monk, or a lay person? Better off going with the flow for now.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:36 am
Sometimes I consider becoming a monk but I'm too eccentric and my love for meat is too strong... unless I become like Ji Gong the Mad Monk. lol
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:20 am
Gohlico Sometimes I consider becoming a monk but I'm too eccentric and my love for meat is too strong... unless I become like Ji Gong the Mad Monk. lol Well, Lohba ( Craving/Attachment ) is incredibly strong indeed ... sweatdrop You will still be affected by it even if you are ordained. But being a monk/nun does develop mental discipline, keeping you on the right path more easily than a layperson that is always influenced by sensual desires of mundane life. mrgreen
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:48 pm
WayfarerStrife Gohlico Sometimes I consider becoming a monk but I'm too eccentric and my love for meat is too strong... unless I become like Ji Gong the Mad Monk. lol Well, Lohba ( Craving/Attachment ) is incredibly strong indeed ... sweatdrop You will still be affected by it even if you are ordained. But being a monk/nun does develop mental discipline, keeping you on the right path more easily than a layperson that is always influenced by sensual desires of mundane life. mrgreen Well yeah Ji Gong (also known as Daoji) wasn't exactly the perfect monk. He loved to eat meat and drink liquor (violations to the monastic code which lead to his kick-out from his temple) but that didn't stop him from helping other people and teaching the dharma. Heck, he was even added to the list of arhats.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:36 am
Isn't there a koan about him?
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:03 am
I would except that I am more influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition of Therevada in my Hindu Yogic practices than I follow a purely Buddhist tradiiton. As the Yogic school I follow believes it is best to live in the world and have a balanced spiritual and physical life then be focused on the spiritual, I couldn't really be ordained and hold my primary belief system.
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:40 am
Soujiro Masakuni I have been considering it in the event of me failing high school and not being able to become a Naturopathic Doctor or an Artist or anything else that involves my interests and passions. Except...Buddhism is one of my interests. I...confused myself. rofl This is just my two cents, but you may find it good advice: In Hinduism, there are multiple stages of life, the last of which is ordination as a monk or Yogi ascetic. In Buddhism, as well as Hinduism, and really any religion, people become ordained because, normally, of their pure love of the religion and desire to be immersed in their faith/see God/etc. I had the same idea for a while before I became involved in Hindu Yoga, but then I realised that I would really be offending numerous people by, for all intents and purposes, using ordination as a fall-back because none of my other plans came together, or in a way worse still, simply as a way to escape the world. I'm not saying you shouldn't be ordained, if you truly feel that this is your path in life you should certainly do it, I just think you should be mindful of your reasons, and how they may effect other's opinion of you.
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:53 pm
I guess I would. I am young, and I feel like I want to experience the world more, but I know that being a nun and ordained would bring me great peace. That's really why I love Buddhism, because whenever I read about or speak about I am filled with this peace. I don't think I would ever do it as a last resort thing or whatever, but I think that I would if not for being so young and that it would interfer with my dream of helping people. I feel like if I did that, I would be focusing on what I wanted, and I would not be able to benefit the world. But then again, I could help people while still being a nun.
I think my relatives would completely freak if I ever did it though. xd
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:34 am
I'm in a serious relationship with a man I love very much... so it wouldn't be fair to either of us if I sought ordination. Furthermore, I think I can do more good for the world as a whole by being a psychologist than a nun.
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:58 am
I'm seriously considering it again. To the point that I do not believe I want to go to graduate school after University. I think that I may rather want to go straight to a monastery or abbey to seek monastic ordination.
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:53 am
[ Jizo Bosatsu ] I'm seriously considering it again. To the point that I do not believe I want to go to graduate school after University. I think that I may rather want to go straight to a monastery or abbey to seek monastic ordination. Could you try for a while living the life of a monk to see if it works out for you? Would they mind? Or would you have to do that anyway before they even considered ordaining you? Me I think I'd be better able to help people on a day to day basis rather than being ordained. I'm probably a sucky Buddhist anyway. I've no idea, despite my plans, what I'm going to end up doing with my life anyway sweatdrop
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