monkhood
I've noticed that i've been moving towards a monk lifestyle lately. I spend the bulk of my free time either meditating or doing household chores and I don't have much interest in entertainment or things that might distract me from my spiritual goal. I was a monk in Myanmar twice, so I know what it means to be a buddhist monk. Technically I am still probably breaking many of the rules a monk would follow. I doubt monks are allowed to use computers and they definitely don't hold jobs. But, I do think that I have the spirit of a monk, because rather than rigidly holding myself to rules, I'm simply behaving this way because it's what I want to do. I didn't shave my head or stop playing DOTA because I want to call myself a monk or so that I feel better about myself. I'm just being (or trying to at any rate), and so sometimes I call myself a monk because it seems to be the nearest to accurate way to describe my behavior.