What are you willing to do anything for? What is so precious that it's worth giving this life for it? 

These are the questions our teacher Soryu Forall urged us to answer for ourselves. In the last retreat before he leaves MAPLE for a few months, he reminded us in the most uncompromisingly honest way the dire need of truly answering with clarity.

This excerpt is from a talk that was given at a silent retreat in June 2021. 
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
If you're interested in learning more, go to our website monasticacademy.org

We are accepting applications for 2 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

What Is Your Precious Life For? - Soryu Forall

How's It Gonna Be (Third Eye Blind Cover)

This week, Soryu Forall answers a series of questions someone asked him recently, beginning with, “How can meditation possibly save the world?” For many people in the modern world, it’s hard to believe that meditation or monastic training could be a powerful and appropriate response to the existential risks humans face today. Without denying the importance of activism and other solutions based in the physical world, Soryu explains how dealing with our individual and collective delusions is necessary to resolve the root cause of these crises.

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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth. www.monasticacademy.com

We are accepting applications for 2-3 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.com/apprentice

Talk - Can Meditation Save the World? - Soryu Forall - Sunday Sit

Modern life is much more complicated and burdensome compared to the days of hunter-gatherers. We have acquired too much stuff both in our environments and in our minds. These overly cluttered minds weigh us down and negative patterns keep cropping up. We can't rest, and we don't heal. Healing can finally happen when we let go of the extra stuff cluttering our minds and experience this moment completely.
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
If you're interested in learning more, go to our website monasticacademy.org

We are accepting applications for 2-3 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

Experience, Let Go, and Heal - Soryu Forall

Chad and Kevin, two dudes with acoustic guitars, join forces to become more than the sum of their parts.  They specialize in all things Chris Cornell, with some softer stuff for variety.

How's It Gonna Be (Third Eye Blind Cover)

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