Hermits and monks experience of life

[fork]

Why it is said that outcasts of society such as monks and hermits realize what life is all about? what exactly do they realize or experience? and what does this experience or way of feeling help them to achieve? or what kind of possibilities open to them as a result?

What especially amazed me is the Shaolin monks. who say they can use the power of their mind to control their body , I don't know if it is really true, but if it is so, what do you think connecting their minds together will allow, what kind of possibilities it will open?

Thanks.

[mandyjw]

They have the incredible possibility to inspire you to find your own connection with yourself, however that looks in your own experience. 

It is good to step away from things that seem to "trigger" and "distract" us, to go within and examine how we create our own triggers and create our own distractions out of thin air. If there is a belief that there are triggers and distractions, one will create them in their experience to reinforce the belief of a separate self at odds with the world. If you are all alone and wish to understand it, this phenomenon will be unavoidably obvious to you. 

The possibility is peace and Love beyond all understanding and it's possible for you/all right now, but no one in particular and never in the future. 

[tsuki]

Monks and outcasts realize what it's all about because they have no stake in it.
You can even figure out what life itself is, if you practice death (meditation).

What is the reward? Nothing.

[fork]

Just now, mandyjw said:

They have the incredible possibility to inspire you to find your own connection with yourself, however that looks in your own experience. 

It is good to step away from things that seem to "trigger" and "distract" us, to go within and examine how we create our own triggers and create our own distractions out of thin air. If there is a belief that there are triggers and distractions, one will create them in their experience to reinforce the belief of a separate self at odds with the world. If you are all alone and wish to understand it, this phenomenon will be unavoidably obvious to you. 

The possibility is peace and Love beyond all understanding and it's possible for you/all right now, but no one in particular and never in the future. 

what do you mean by a connection with yourself? how do you feel it?

and what do you mean by peace and love beyond all understanding? does it mean that they always feel good no matter what happens? how do they enter that state?

[mandyjw]

2 hours ago, fork said:

what do you mean by a connection with yourself? how do you feel it?

Love for everything that is, which is a step including and beyond acceptance. You already feel it when you aren't thinking, when there is no separate you from "it". You can deepen your experience of "it" by learning to stop interrupting it. You interrupt it whenever you think a thought of separation or judgment and instead choose a thought that feels good or abide in "no thought". 

2 hours ago, fork said:

does it mean that they always feel good no matter what happens?

It does not mean what you or I think it means. It is beyond the thought of "good" as opposed to "bad".