News coming out that Ekapol Chanthawong trained as a monk for a decade, and taught the trapped kids how to meditate whilst they were stuck in the cave, to help them deal with the situation. Mind training is valuable: outer renunciation ≠ dropping out of society.
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Of course this is a simplification. One can be cloistered away and still very much be will within a cosy fold. eg: boy grows up in monastery, has to leave to notice power of psycho-social norms. Yogi does years of retreat, power of religious kudos drops away when they get job
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Not at all original thought, just something I'm pondering whilst my coffee brews. The following doggoandhardy.gif is much better:pic.twitter.com/tQFpvyrnSt
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