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What was life like in the monastery?

Like how stringent was the routine and like what was a day like in the monastery?

It's great. The best life is if you understand the, unfortunately that I didn't understand.

The monastery life is the best life ever.

But I didn't know. I always tell people the bad is very important, you know.

If the bad is not exist, then good is not exist.

So I was monastery too young and I didn't have experience the world.

That's, you know, a death code.

You have to pay rent, mortgage, the car, gas, food.

I didn't have experience.

And in the monastery, everything is ready. So too good. And then I stopped the monk. I didn't know that, so how great it was.

Now I have experience. I have to pay gas, pay food, pay car, pay mortgage, pay rent.

Then I know how great life is worth.

Yeah.

While you were there, was it, I know some of the Buddhist monasteries practice martial arts as well.

Is that something that you took part in?

Yes, absolutely. So do you guys train in martial arts daily? Like that's just part of the routine.

That's a part of your routine and protect. Protect severe teacher martial art is not for fight and that's for

protected the for example the if necessary need and protect your monastery

protect that's who get abused and for example the protect the sanction being who who needs

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