The Buddhist monk identifies himself as a monk and is recognisable as such by others.
you would think that
i'm going to guess you haven't met very many buddhist monks
RE: I have spent lot of years mainly figuring out what myself and this reality is all about.
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I have spent lot of years mainly figuring out what myself and this reality is all about.
Without already looked into the video,
it remains true that someone who works in a Buddhist monastery, has been ordained and can therefore officially be called a monk, is recognisable as such to others. I wasn't talking about anything else.
You can of course be a Buddhist or a Christian without ever having to have entered a church or worked in a monastery. You can believe in the sacrament of marriage without ever having been married by a priest and you can be a deeply spiritual person without ever having come into contact with any of that.
All this and more is possible but is it also most likely?
You don't go to the box club if you want to swim. If you want to meet other swimmers, you're more likely to meet them in the water than at a car club meeting. That's why it's useful that we have such designations.
Of course, one could be a liar. In order to find out if someone lies, it's up to the involved.
Nirbija
Once you are able to detach from those miseries and memories, "you get to that elimination of the subject-object distinction," she notes. Nir means "without," and so Nirbija means "without seed." "You get to that point of what they call 'onliness'—not loneliness," she adds. "It's a state of eternal bliss and being one with permanence."
Overall, "it's about getting through that first stage of recognizing those connections," Sundaram says, "and then the second stage is erasing those connections such that you start to see what Patanjali calls the object in and of itself."
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/samadhi