I’m on my way to Costa Rica with my teacher and another monk, we bought some land there last year and now we are building a self-sufficient monastic community in the jungles of Costa Rica, Guanacaste. It’s in a real pioneering stage, we are basically building a whole mini-world from scratch, an ideal place to live simply and concentrate on spiritual practice.
There’s not many opportunities to get online, we set up a micro hydro system (water power) to get electicity and we get our water frommountain springs, but there’s no internet. So when we go to the close by town (about 30-40 km away) I’ll try to tell what’s been going on.
Some years ago my only connection to Costa Rica was Chiquita bananas and a coffee brand, i would’ve never thought that I’d be helping build a monastery to a Costarican jungle!
I think in these times it’s important to have a practical alternative to the consumer craziness andmaterialisitic lifestyle that’s causing serious disturbance to nature and the living beings. We’re doing our little thing in Costa Rica and hoping it will inspire people to change their ways.
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