Playing with the Devil

Life & World-View- when a monk takes "Notes" from Inside an Ashram. Life as it is, is playing itself out and seems to be full of dangerous, futile episodes of intolerance and dominance. A small bunch of people have on the other hand also seen the loves, kind and compassionate episodes but they are outnumbered 100 to 1 by the sadder ones. Ashrams and monasteries and retreats give a better view indeed. So one goes within a special place to contemplate and what does one see from there and what are the solutions, answers to the perennial question to improve upon it and the route to take?Here are the thoughts of one monk who passed this way.