“ Who is the self that you are helping? ”
Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.
~ Muni Natarajan
You don't have to be where you find yourself to be.
Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself.
In the monastery, you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them