News Forum - Monks who got lost found in Northern Thai national park

[Thaiger]

Five monks who got lost in a national park two weeks ago were found in the same park in Northern Thailand last night. The monks didn’t show any signs of illness, but only exhaustion from eating very little food. They had been on a forest retreat, and got lost while walking along paths. The monks told park officials they had come in two groups from Kanchanaburi, and met at a waterfall in the Mae Wong National Park. For 15 days, the monks only ate wild bananas and plants picked along the stream. Two monks eventually found their way out of […]

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[Pinetree]

3 hours ago, Thaiger said:

The monks didn’t show any signs of illness, but only exhaustion from eating very little food.

I read somewhere that Buddha spent 49 days  sitting under a Peepal tree and then 7 weeks under a Bodhi tree and never ate or drink a thing.  If so, these boys need to man up a bit. 

Edited March 3, 2022 by Pinetree