Novice Monks

[MystEerieUsOne]

In Buddhism, small children are often chosen to become monks and, as such, are removed from their family home to study in monasteries, sometimes down the street, sometimes on the other side of the world.

Heads shaved, wearing monks' robes, they study to become *realizers* from toddlerhood.

I understand the reasoning behind the...reasoning, but I am wondering what YOU think of the situation?



Often, these children are believed to be reincarnations of those for whom they succeed.

This is adorable!

The Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama

[MystEerieUsOne]

I cannot wait to have this movie!!!!

[planetlove]

looks great ...

One of my aunts have found her son who died but i don't like to ever use the word die for in truth we never die ..
So I will say she lost him as he exited the body that he was in and she has found him again as he incarnated on another part of this blue ball...
She felt it was her duty to do so and she did ...
sort of kinda like the in the preview of this movie...

I wish to see it soon

As for the above what i think of the kids being chosen ....
You already know that everything is the way it suppose to be ....
As much as we try to fight what we see ....all we have to do is accept ...
Acceptance is futile in our own growth ...
for everything already "IS" ...
V

[BlueStar]

Cool, that film looks really interesting. My kinda film

About the question of young children becoming monks, some people in our society might think 'that's shocking, imagine subjecting those poor children to that, they should have 'normal' upbringings.' Sadly, 'normal' upbringings more often than not fail the incoming soul. The 'sins of the father' are passed along to the children as they are socialised in the ways of our materialistic ego-driven culture. I don't mean that as judgement, more as impartial fact. It's just the way it is.

I feel the children raised to be Buddhist monks are given a tremendous blessing...I mean, it's like the choice - although maybe not explicitly stated - between having inner peace and having 'things' in the vain hope that 'things' will make you happy. Not all the children raised as monks are well suited and I believe there are drop-outs, this is to be expected. But I feel many may have chosen lives of service prior to incarnation. We need as many "frequency holders" as we can get. All is good.

[MystEerieUsOne]

There are many "drop outs," but I have never seen any of them, as yet, wish their childhoods had been different, realizing what they are taking with them into their new lives among convention.

The Dalai Lama's brothers all "dropped out" of being Tibetan Buddhist monks. His interpreter seen traveling with him the most dropped out. But these are very well-educated people who are so needed, finding themselves living among conventional expectation, struggling to balance what they have already realized is not likely to be appreciated by those who ironically resist precisely what they have to offer, unable to recognize it when confronted with it under a different label.

There are, though, very young novice monks who sought the monastery so wholeheartedly for themselves, even if they themselves had a different language for it, and their own karma is what led them to being exactly where they sought to find themselves all along.

I often confront my own self in the belief, via physics, that I had been intended to be among them, but somehow I was never discovered, never found discovering my own realizations at such a very young age, remembering my previous life as if I'd just stepped out of it. I was too far away to be realized among the realized, and too right there to be seemingly so distant.

This movie, The Unmistaken Child, is such an extraordinary adventure into the hearts of those being sought, as well as those hoping to be sought. It is simply beautiful and holds a lot of answers for anyone wondering about the determination of the determined.

Having said all that, the Dalai Lama himself has expressed missing his childhood, from both a child and adult perspective, but I see him as so childlike in his own right that it was intended to be that way. It is his childlike playfulness and humor that allows him to be so approachable, so alluring, and so truly loved!

I believe he believes that, too.