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someone I feel like I will never find happiness in lay life and I'm very depressed is this a sign for me to become a monk you don't need a sign to become a monk just become a monk there's no if you if you're not tied down to anything just become a monk there's nothing else there's nothing better that you could do

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Of course you'll never find happiness in lay life.

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There's no happiness to be found.

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Is that going to turn people off?

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I don't know.

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But I have to, you know, I think you just have to get to that.

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If you're not afraid of being, of ordaining and

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you don't have burdens that are keeping you from ordaining, then I don't see a reason not to.

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Worst, you'll just die on the street or something.

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Very good karma to give up everything.

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It would certainly fix your depression.

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I don't know about that.

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It depends because sometimes you go to the monastery and

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realize how depressing it is how depressing buddhism has become monasteries can be modern monasteries can be a little bit depressing as well but the monk's life is not depressing no i think that's not true because you have the monk's life monk's life is not depressing it's wonderfully liberating you're so in control of your own destiny nothing can phase you maybe you don't eat for a day

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inconsequential.

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Maybe you don't have soap or toothbrush.

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Maybe you're lying sick in a cave somewhere.

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Such freedom.

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You don't have to worry about anything.

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So I think a very good cure for depression.

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Certainly a cure for the lay life.

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It's just a joke, you see, because when you become a monk, you are no longer a lay person.

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So it's a cure for the lay life.