Sofa Enlightenment
by Robert Broughton
#15 – Reflection Time
In the early 1990s, the narrator is invited by his old friend Greg to come to Burma "for a holiday." He goes to stay at Greg's monastery. There he notices that living as a monk is not really that different from normal life: "It is not monasteries and robes that make a monk, it is an alchemy that takes place in the heart," he concludes. His wish is now to live in a spiritual community.