Oh, like this stuff?
   [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pllQ_-ZxEA Of course, this
   is a romanticized view of it, with the fancy music and stuff,
   making it sound all mystical and stuff. Maybe it is, I dunno. We
   idolize Zen Buddhism in the West thanks to .. oh, what's his
   face? ah here:
   [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunry%C5%AB_Suzuki - Suzuki.
   yeah. He helped popularize it in the version we got here. Then
   we get the stuff in the movies. That's mostly how we know about
   it. what's the truth of it? I dunno. Maybe a locally made
   documentary about it. I'll see what I can find. ==   Ah here!
   [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5fbbR30VA here's a japanese
   documentary (in English) going through their actual day. I'm
   watching it now 'cause I'm curious too. == oh screw this. I'm
   not even 2 minutes into it and I'm like wtf. yeah, no I'll
   scratch Buddhist monastery off my retirement plans, at least not
   a Japanese one tongue emoticon maybe one of the more lightweight
   ones. Still overall, doesn't matter which one. The one I was at
   (Eastern Orthodox) was good, but I'm not holding myself to that
   one in any case. A secular one is fine too - planned community
   of some kind.. although most secular epicurean communities fall
   apart eventually. === Oh wait a minute - this is no different
   than US Army Boot Camp. These are are young people. Ok, yeah,
   it's not so different. It's like military discipline. Same idea.
   === think when they're done, they get to hold the paddle. SMACK
   SWAT YOUR TURN NOW, SUCKAS without smiling. Yeah, good question
   there. == [4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhikkhu Ok I got it.
   You can't be younger than 20 (earliest they take is 7 yrs old,
   so, school age). - and after that, you live off alms. So, it's
   intense training to be a bum, but a really nice bum. Sounds good
   smile emoticon [I know it sounds mean but hey, I'm from 'meruka]
   Wait a minute! We have PhD programs for that! you know.. to end
   up as a bum, living off parents so you can write 'that book'.

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