Can you make an elaborate post on this? I would love to read what's monkmaxxing to you
A monk, both in the Eastern and Western traditions is someone who seeks after a Moksha/Nirvaana/Salvation experience.
In the Western tradition, this means falling to the floor, crying, while thinking "I am so filthy that I am a piece of shit through and through"
For example, this is how it is described in Saint Augustine's Confessions:
… when a deep consideration had from the secret bottom of my soul drawn together and heaped up all my misery in the sight of my heart; there arose a mighty storm, bringing a mighty shower of tears. … I cast myself down I know not how, under a certain fig-tree, giving full vent to my tears; and the floods of mine eyes gushed out an acceptable sacrifice to Thee. And, not indeed in these words, yet to this purpose, spake I much unto Thee: and Thou, O Lord, how long_? how long, Lord, wilt Thou be angry for ever ? Remember not our former iniquities, for I felt that I was held by them. I sent up these sorrowful words: How long, how long, ‘to-morrow, and tomorrow ?’ Why not now ? why not is there, this hour, an end to my uncleanness ?
The reference to God in that passage is not essential. God is just a mental tool to achieve mental cleansing. The key word in the passage above is "uncleanness". The crying is a metaphor of the cleaning process. It is as if your tears are cleaning the filth in your brain (like the water of the baptism or the water that a Brahmin must touch before starting a sacrifice, see
Shatapatha Brahmana 1:1:1:1)
The reason this works is because when you are broken enough to cry, your brain is actually in a state where it is able to get rid of wrong beliefs (i.e. mental crap). The outward crying is the visible sign of the inward mental cleansing processes that the brain is undergoing at that moment. The goal of the monk is to trigger such processes.
In the different traditions, various techniques are used to reach that goal.
In the theistic traditions, like Christianity or the Bhagavata-derived Sampradayas in India (Sri-Vaishnava, Madhva, ...), the main technique is to picture an all-powerful God that is angry at you (
that will make you cry, of course, if you believe it)
In other traditions, you have meditation techniques with a lot of subcategories. Some Buddhist monks, for example, focus their attentions on repulsive things, like corpses, insects crawling on filth, etc. After a while, that will make you so depressed that you will cry inwardly.
In some meditation techniques, you repeat mantras in your head.
For example, one thing I do is repeat this verse in my head:
I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. (Revelations 17:1-2)
Except that I have changed it a little to make it clearer:
I will show unto you the judgment of the great Stacy with whom the Chads of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. (Revelations 17:1-2)
And at the same time I think: "I wanted to fuck her in order to be Chad myself and bully everyone". It makes me cry, after a while.
Each person has to find something equivalent to reach that state
