i was a nun for a week ama
| did you sleep alright?
| What does a nun usually do?
| best part about the job?
| waow cool! were they friendly did you feel touch starved?
| What made you become a nun?
What made you quit?
How many other nuns did you sleep with?
| Were there Toxic power/group dynamics? If not how did they stop them? How did the others smell nice? Did you learn anything about non nun society from getting away from it?
| What kind of video games does Buddhist nuns play?
| Was it cozy wearing the outfit? I've always wanted to wear a nun uniform/monks robes. I feel like it would be emotionally cleansing
| How were the interactions with the people at the temple?
| different id on the move rn
>>1053354
i woke up at 5am and slept at midnight usually
>>1053366
take care of the monastery and pray mostly
>>1053376
we got 2 hours to do whatever and i used mine to sleep at 10pm instead of 12pm
>>1053380
everyone was super chill
i even met some it director that only coded in cobol :O
>>1053401
i had free time, and it was only a temporary thing from the start
we had separate dorms for monks and nuns, half a dozen including me
| >>1053510
>i woke up at 5am and slept at midnight usually
that seems a bit short, but if that's standard for a nun, who am i to judge. just wanted to check that you were well and healthy <3
| Yeah sleep is really important apparently that’s a warning sign of cults and abusive ppl is they’ll sleep deprive you so you can’t have strength or think. But that sounds like it was good I hope : )
| >>1053519
>>1053403
oh everyone was super sweet and nice
i /did/ have to shave my head and eat vegan for a week and recite sutras thousands of times tho that kinda sucked haha
i was joking with this nun who was super short and looked almost like they were 10 but they were actually 22 about the first thing we'd eat when we got out
| >>1053435 above
>>1053411
no phone, music, meat, or internet :(
i did a heckuva lot of praying tho !!
>>1053434
it's very comfy and warm when you're meditating in the mountains, but when you're bowing it kinda gets in the way
stable wifi woo hoo !!!
| Why did you become a nun in the first place?
| What's the process of becoming a nun look like?
| I want to drink nun's piss
| >>1053536
I was expecting an old Famicom or something that all the old monks would bring out on special occasion and stuff y'know like in manga
| or nuns or whatev
| >>1053539
1 got laid off 2 had free time from being laid off 3 had a comfortable amount of savings to go NEET for a while, but decided to do the nun stuff instead
>>1053543
this heavily differs from temple to temple, but i talked to the head monk at the temple while they were still accepting new monks/nuns. they asked me for email and number and other personal info and i got a form asking how many meals per day i wanted to eat (min 1, max 3)
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| that meal number (+ rent for rooms) decided how much it would cost me to be a monk. for the 9 days with 3 meals a day, and rent (which costs a ton in the mtns) it was ~1.2k usd. not cheap...
however you get your dharma name out of it, which lets you in (most) mahayana buddhist temples in china for free. dunno about japan or vietnam tho
| Wow interesting!
| I like how you did that instead of sitting around at home
| >>d2e2d2
A Swedish-vietnamese friend of mine did exactly this but she mailed a temple in china and got to stay for free.
| How old are the monks and nuns? The photos of the monks my friend stayed with were all very fit young men in their early 20s.
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| (buddhist) nun btw