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Where are you?

Riffraff — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:01:10 GMT

There is a sense in me that the human environment can embody peace, vigorous participation, a healthy community life, and help subvert the dominant culture simply by living more monstically. Not a rule-bound ego game that stimulates competition and self-centered reactions, but one that fosters one's honesty, one's connection with spirit. One that helps one another be cultural creatives and serves as a refuge against the over-hyped dominant consumer culture.

Do you live in this?

Is it essential for you to live independently for your home to be this refuge?

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Synchroblog on new monasticism

hayesstw — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:38:02 GMT

Some Protestants have been talking a lot recently about a "new monasticism" and this month a group of us have been havinfg a synchroblog on the topic -- posting blogs on the same day on the same general theme.

If you are interested you can find my contribution at Treasures old and new, with links to the posts by the other contributors, here:

http://tinyurl.com/2zu7yt

Though the idea is new to many of those who are now discussing it, and trying to practise it, it actually has quite a long history. Even today there are old relics like me who can remember, with old hippie nostalgia, the Christian (and other) communes of the late 1960s and early 1970s. There were Cathoplic groups like the Catholic Worker communities and The Grail, and Protestant ones as well.

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Hermit and monastic links

john — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:19:34 GMT

Been a monk and hemrit past 40 years; have a Yahoo group for monastic subjects at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/monasterion and one for spirituality or self-realization at s me address but at the end /realized not monasterion. Have a priory with associates (bishops, priests, monks, nuns, hermits, laity) in different countries see http://netministries.org/see/churches.exe/ch25267 Suppose everyone knows the excellent site and list for hermits at hermitary.com ? Google for it. John

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New monasticism mets the old

hayesstw — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:13:02 GMT

This morning Roger Saner spoke on the new monasticism at Brooklyn Mall in Pretoria. Some traditional monks went to hear him.

More details at:

http://khanya.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/new-monasticism-meets-old/

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Death to the World: the last true rebellion -- punx 2 monks

hayesstw — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:52:01 GMT

It seems that there is to be a revival of <I>Death to the world</i> zine.

More info and links here:

http://methodius.blogspot.com/2006/07/death-to-world-lives.html

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Christian varieties of urban monasticism

hayesstw — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:25:11 GMT

We've been having quite a stimulating discussion of Christian varieties of urban monasticism here:

http://methodius.livejournal.com/47711.html

with several interesting links.

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Gomchen

Mish — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:53:26 GMT

I immediately thought of this when I saw this tribe. The gomchen tradition in bhutan (also known as ngagpa in other parts of the himalayas), they are trained in the dharma and also live in the community with families and everything, so they cross over into both monasticism and lay lives. There's a good article on this, but its in pdf so here's the link:

http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/journal/Vol12/12-4.pdf

The article talks about the gomchen tradition in relationship to the concept of Gross National Happiness that Bhutan is using as an alternative to western conceptions of development, but also gives a good overview of the gomchen tradition.

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Mother Maria Skobtsova -- nun and martyr

hayesstw — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:59:54 GMT

There is a good article about Mother Maria Skobtsova here:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jim_forest/mmaria.htm

The idea of an urban monk is a fairly broad one, and so "urban monasticism" could take many forms, but hers was certainly one of them. It is not the only model of urban monasticism, but if one is looking for a model, this is a good place to look.

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