I Want To Leave Society, HELP PLEASE Options

Does anyone know of anywhere that I can go in the Himalayas or India so that I can live life free from people? A monastery would be acceptable. Just somewhere that I can have food, clothes, shelter, and freedom from interaction with anyone. Preferably somewhere on a mountain or in a mountain range.

I am serious. It has been my dream to live quietly in the East, alone on a mountain, and now it's my only option to keep me from killing everyone I know.

Does anyone know of anywhere that I can go in the Himalayas or India so that I can live life free from people? A monastery would be acceptable. Just somewhere that I can have food, clothes, shelter, and freedom from interaction with anyone. Preferably somewhere on a mountain or in a mountain range.

I am serious. It has been my dream to live quietly in the East, alone on a mountain, and now it's my only option to keep me from killing everyone I know.

Well it depends on your religion, now doesn't it? I mean, most of your monasteries are going to be either hindu or buddhist. Can you be a dedicated enough monastic member of either of those religions that you can live happily in temple life?

Otherwise, living off on your own you need to be able to grow/collect/hunt your own food, build your own shelter, treat your own sicknesses and possible injuries. There's also specific survival issues when dealing with places like the himalayas where it's cold the majority of the time, or in india where its sweltering half the time. Then there's wild animals, some of which are predatory and others just poisonous, exotic and deadly insects attracted to your body heat, etc.

These are not excuses, of course, but subjects that should be explored and skills acquired before you make such a commitment, if you don't want to die in the act. I had a friend who moved to the wilds of kuai a couple of years ago with his wife, and they were going to live off the land and live in harmony with nature. They even took a bunch of equipment with them to avoid having to make a shelter, etc., but even with the assistance of modern tech they quickly began to realize that living 'in nature' isn't about living in harmony or peace, it's about survival. They were wet and dirty all the time, hungry all the time, became sick (found out after a month it was a lingering pneumonia from being in the rain all the time), and finally decided that they were not equipped to accomplish this dream.

Living in a monastery is easier, but only physically. You'd be expected to be monastic, take vows, dedicate your life to this religion. Celibacy is a basic common vow, vegetarianism, sometimes silence, etc. And you still interact with people - there are things to do, food to grow, a temple to clean and maintain day in and day out when you aren't praying/meditating. And it isn't about gaining supernatural powers, or a secret magical element that they don't tell outsiders about - its about waiting patiently for enlightenment (or if you're in a catholic monastery its about glorifying God).

Go camping a lot if you want to do this eventually. You certainly can, and there are places where it can be done. But until you can live a month in the mountains/wilderness here, close to home where you can conceivably seek aid if you are gravely ill or injured, you are not at all prepared to go do it in a foreign place under alien conditions that you know next to nothing about.

There's a monastery in Kuai if you wanted to visit, it's a hindu monastery but besides the religion being practiced they're all pretty much similar, although some like this one are a bit more technologically forward, I think they have old computers there. But there are several young american monks who've taken up the sannyasin lifestyle there.

On the other hand, if you're already grizzly adams, go forth and conquer! Kuai is a great place to do it and you don't need a passport to get there, plus you can register as a hunter-gatherer and not be bothered by taxes, etc. Otherwise, pick a spot in the 'east' that isn't populated by a billion people and go there, although I would avoid anywhere in china, anywhere within 300 miles of the india/pakistani border, and japan. Those places don't take kindly to foreign strangers living in their mountains.

peace