«All religions of this world tell us how to pray to God and how to please God with ceremonies and offerings. Who tells us how to be quiet and listen to God?»
Hermit Br. Markus
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The Hermitage
Hermit Br. Markus
Living as a hermit monk, alone in a wooden cabin in the high mountains of the Alps. Devoted on meditation. Focused on the Absolute, on Nirvana or Moksha. Nothing more.
Discover the spiritual background.
The Meaning of Life
The meaning of life must be defined in a way that it will support you and show a way out in possible life crises. In a critical life situation it may not be adapted but it is meant to give stability.
What does Truth Mean?
Does the Truth exist? In every TV-thriller all is about truth. The detective investigates the crime and does not give up until the bare truth is revealed. Sometimes with high effort!
Why not inquire into the thriller of life in the same way until the Truth is revealed?
The Hermitage, almost like Tibet
Both, life as a hermit and daily life with family and work can lead to the same goal.
«Keep your mind peaceful, do what has to be done and wish for God. That's all.» Br. Markus
Newspaper and Television
(In German – of course!)
Great Meditation
WB, 15.9.2014, Philipp Mooser
WB, 11.5.2018, Manuela Pfaffen
Zurück unter Menschen
Neujahrsgespräch mit dem WB (30.12.2019)
WB, 08.01.2020, Nathalie Benelli
Einsamkeit – wenn keiner da ist
Nachtcafé, Südwestrundfunk, 7 December 2018
Excessive demand, society at its limit : “Stille – Ganz bei sich sein”
Beobachter, 16.01.2020, Peter Aeschlimann
(Interview from 26.12.2019)
Einsamkeit, die unterschätzte Gefahr
SRF1, 13 September 2018
(By courtesy Karin Moser, NZZ Format.)
Der Einsiedler
DOK, SRF1, 15 November 2018, 50 mins.
(By courtesy Belinda Sallin, SRF1)
«Whatever you do, at the same time somebody will praise you and somebody else will criticize you. This is not due to the persons; this is how the world functions.» Br. Markus
Hermitage or Ashram
To live as a hermit not only means to break with social life, to renounce certain things and to give up profession to lead simple life.
True hermit's life is to break with ideas and old memories, to renounce likes and dislikes, to give up success and to lead the mind to simplicity.
What one renounces is the life of a frog in its well which knows the world as far as it can jump. While the drain of its well would lead it directly to the great ocean.
The Great Retreat
Physical and intellectual (mental) actions fill the day of most people. But a spiritual life is also needed; a focus on what cannot be experienced physically and intellectually.
Daily prayer or meditation are the basics of spiritual life with work and family. Jesus and Krishna, also Buddha have proclaimed that very clearly.
Following the example of the Tibetan monks and nuns, the Great Retreat is the most concentrated form of this focus. For three years and three months one lives in total reclusion.
Stones or Milk
What does one do when doing nothing? – Except just renewing the website. ;-)
Humans think constantly about what they have done, what they want to do and what they don't want.
You have likes and dislikes.
This makes you think.
And thinking makes you act.
If only the mind could keep quiet; then life would become quiet, too!
Dominus Providebit
“God will provide” as such the Latin translation of the Vulgate, Gen. 22,8
Trust in God has nothing to do with belief or hope, and never with blind trust. Trust is based on knowledge and experience. Both have to grow.
To trust God one needs a sufficiently clear understanding of God. This is, and ever was, differently taught by the representatives of the different religions. Here, a personal effort and a
dissociation from existing structures are needed in order to understand the true qualities of God.
«Spiritual progress is not about becoming something, it is about giving up.» Br. Markus