Easter and Western Christian views of monks and monasticism--what are the differences historically between them?

Catholics= Scholasticism

Orthodox=Asceticism

"The authentic monastic tradition in the West was practically stamped out in the course of the French bourgeois revolution in 1789."

Read this one: http://journeytoorthodoxy.com/2011/01/26/a-catholi...

Western Christianity is far different in perspective

than the East when it comes to spirituality and asceticism.

You won't really find anchorites and hermits in the West....

Christians in the West have little knowledge of how Orthodox Christianity approaches mysticism and spiritual warfare (also the

whole view of how God interacts with the Cosmos).

For instance, this doesn't exist in the West:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqEDhKKPl-o

The West does not have the doctrine of Heychasm ("stillness") that we have in the East. And therefore, their spirituality isn't so much about isolation and silence as it is about being cenobitic and living in a community.

In regards to monasticism, these differences are very visible.

Generally Western monastics have a bigger emphasis on doing physical labour and hard work, and living together in a community.

In the East, we have a bigger emphasis on isolation and "stillness." Hard work and labour is actually considered a burden, and is only left to beginner-monks.

Our battle lies more in the isolation of our cells--within the stillness as we really begin the spiritual warfare within our hearts.