Discovering yourself - Nog een impressie van de winter
(geschreven voor The Voice, Leuvens internationaal studentenmagazine) Everything Flows Heraclitus Knowing yourself is Enlightenment Lao Tzu 'Discover yourself. Begin with the world' is our university’s motto. That is what they teach us while we study here. After I finished my studies however, I did the complete opposite. I discovered myself by locking the world firmly away, which may have taught me even more then all I learned in Uni: I decided to go for an international experience quite different from your average 'Orgasmus Erasmus' and spent over three months... on retreat in a Zen Buddhist monastery. It may sound like a cliché, but if one wants to get to know oneself, one has to come out of his comfort zone. I must say I might have taken that to its extreme. Try living three and a half months in a community, with eight people in one bedroom and virtually no privacy. Try just following a communal schedule (waking up at five in the morning!), without you deciding wha...