02 — Roam Editorial
He Shaved His Head For THIS?!
Sonny Side paid $3,000 for a hair transplant. Then a monastery in the Bhutanese Himalayas asked for the razor. 24 hours as a monk, five meals of rice and chilli-cheese, and one lesson about muddy water.
Six hours into the mountains of Wangdue Phodrang district sits a monastery of eighty monks, three football fields wide, where the day starts at 5am with prayers and ends after up to ten hours of memorising Buddhist texts. Best Ever Food Review Show went for the food — butter tea, rice with ezay, tea momos — and stayed for the renunciation.
If you are angry, trying something is just making it worse — like stirring up muddy water. Leave it, and it clears on its own.
— A monk of Wangdue Phodrang, to Sonny Side
Five meals a day, no meat, no phones in class, and a guide — Loday Sherab, a monk since seventeen — who treats a fried-cornflakes snack and a philosophy of non-attachment with the same calm. The clickbait is the haircut. The keeper is the muddy water.