A Buddhist Experience
My last 3 days were spent staying at a Buddhist temple in South Korea called Baekryunsa. This is how it went:
Eating vegetarian deliciousness learning Buddhist chants killing mosquitoes while meditating with monks (oops) sleeping in a typhoon dreaming of vivid wonders in a technicolor cartoon wearing MC Hammer pants (monk garb) -napping- hiking through bamboo filled hills and foraging nuts and berries as bounties for our voyage meditating at sunrise witnessing a tea offering to Buddha hiking a mountain to a Bogota perched at the edge of the world -napping again- playing with the temple dog eating hordes of ice cream finding out that monks need wifi and use Facebook too discovering a monks cemetery from the 13th century watching various species of beetles for far too long of a period while still surprisingly maintaining a sense of fascination -napping again- showering 4 times a day due to sweating profuse amounts performing 108 full-fledged bows down to the ground symbolizing 108 troubles we must recognize in our life and something about a baseball having 108 stitches participating in a tea ceremony learning that monks enjoy asking questions they don't know the answer to -"Is that a painting of a man or woman? -Man? Answer: Nobody knows..." -napping again again- hiking to a famous scholar's house of exile at 6 am falling asleep to the sound of rain and thunder waking up to chants and gongs and the sound of bugs becoming friends with Zen monks (it's official, Facebook has a certified it) reaching enlightenment? Perhaps another time.












