The Urge to Drop Everything and Become a Hermit

[Julian gabriel]

Seems like every spiritual seeker has the urge to drop everything and go live in the alone woods or something.

Why?

I've felt like doing this for a while and I'm not sure if it's a desire to escape myself or a desire to find myself, not that its necessarily one or the other.

 

[thepixelmonk]

Just now, Julian gabriel said:

Seems like every spiritual seeker has the urge to drop everything and go live in the alone woods or something.

I don't really see this as true at all. But sure, dropping your sort of preconditioned materialistic lifestyle would be a common theme.

[vishnusavestheday]

Try going homeless in LA just for the fun of it. Or any city. Vegas, Miami, San Francisco. It's a whole different spirituality.

[Jodistrict]

I just got back from two weeks in the Amazon.  It was highly useful.  The jungle changes you.  Nature has a different rhythm than modern life, which is noisy and chaotic.  Everything flows, moves slowly with focused attention.  It is a community,( the plants, insects, animals) that moves and flows together like a dance. No one in the jungle gives orders and commands.  Everyone wants to eat you.  Being in nature gets you in contact with the Tao.

[Twenty]

And then intention will follow you and burn the forest. Anyone who have went to this path will be followed. Suddenly there will be something or a city built around you. /near you.