As for religion, I’m an agnostic, and I only WISH that I could believe in a higher power, or to believe that everything will be okay in the after life. I have no yet gained the gift of unconditional faith, such as this monk.

You don’t have to “waste” a life on prayer. To that monk, that may be what he WANTED to spend his life on, greater physical and spiritual connections. That man is 70 years old and can still get up and down up to 1000 times a day. I’d like to see some people, not just in America, but otherwise, do the same. I’m a healthy weight, and fairly active, but I still don’t think that I could constantly get up and down in prayer like that 3,000 times a day.

In the Western World, we have been raised to believe that in our life we should go to school, then college, then get a job, find a partner, start a family, and die. We waste twelve years of our life in school, most of which we don’t even pay attention to what we’re being taught. Then a few of us go to college, where we do the same exact thing, most likely to not even to get a job in the field we studied for. Then after that, you settle on a desk job that you can’t stand, spend years there, find someone you can tolerate, make babies, and the process starts all over again. If you ask me, that’s a wasted life. You all say that he’s wasting his life, but he doesn’t just spend his time praying, he’s a doctor as well. There was a great man named John Lennon, and I live by these words of his. “Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
He spent his life, doing exactly what he wanted, devoid of materialistic objects. I only WISH I could go a day without checking Facebook or reading blogs. He doesn’t need money to be happy, unlike every other person in the Western World.
I seriously could only dream of having that much devotion to one thing like that. Even just sitting outside in the yard for a few minutes a day.

And seconding the idea that a majority of people posting in such a way are Americans. Most likely white and middle-class as well.