Milarepa lived from 1052 to 1135 in Tibet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milarepa
and lived a part of his life in a cave:
But what is interesting about Milarea that even 1 000 years after his death people such as “children of light” are interested in the cave of Milarepa and want to see it. And although Milarepa first had problem with financing his meditation retreat in his cave, even 1 000 years after his death
there seem to be funders who funds talks about how Milarepa lived in his cave:
So to live as Milarepa who lived in a cave seems to be something fascinating for people even 1000 years after his death. And people seem to be so fascinated about it that they are ready to fund people who live like Milarepa even today.
Milarepa was looking for the end of his suffering and found it in his cave. And other people who where looking for an end of their suffering followed him. And is to find an end of (mental) suffering not something everybody is looking for? And should we for that reason not do research about people like Milarepa? Not only about how 20 min of meditation affects their brains measured by a brain scanner. And not by only going to Tibet and investigate Milarepa s cave.
But by doing scientific research about people like Milarepa, their physiology, and how the life-stile of Milarepa can be funded today?
Since even today in a rich country such as Switzerland there are medical doctors who seem not to be able to do something against the suffering of their patients: