You come back from another retreat and feel at peace—for a while. Then life starts moving again, and the same questions return.
In Ep 8 of Meng & Friends, Ajahns Kovilo and Nisabho (@ClearMountainMonastery) sit down with Meng to discuss spiritual consumerism in a conversation that might ruffle some feathers: repeated retreats has diminishing returns, social media is just samsara with a better UI, and how the missing ingredient in Western Buddhism isn’t more meditation.
Learn about why Buddhist monks can’t touch money, how to remain calm when you get punched in the stomach, and what a forest monastery 40 minutes from Seattle has to do with any of this.
Also: monk jokes. A lot of them.
