The Urban Monk Inside Us
The Inner Voice in Chaos Have you ever felt the voice of an inner void while traveling in a train or during the commute to the office in the chaos of your daily routine? A voice that continuously remains within us and asks you to dive deep into it — like a para-diver plunging into the ocean to feel the immense silence hidden in this chaotic world. This may be the monk inside you, asking you to be still and feel the silence between the thoughts of doing this and that, of always trying to achieve something in the future. This monk continuously calls us to live in the present, but we keep trying to escape and live somewhere in the future. When Life Speaks Through Silence When it rains, we keep running under the shed of an umbrella as if we must reach somewhere. Yet, when we are tired, the same monk asks us to sit idle, lose ourselves in nature, or disappear into the mountains. We all have such inner voices, right? Listening to the Monk With...