Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less."
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Monk
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Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian."
Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"I felt like poisoning a monk."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering."
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"There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned."
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"I’m a basketball player, not a monk."
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"...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him."
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"I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile."
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"If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them."
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"Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness."
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"There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded."
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"He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars."
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"All hoods make not monks."
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"If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic."
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"I am a simple Buddhist monk."
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"If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer."
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"I am simply just one monk. That's all."
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"High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse."
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"Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."
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"I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk."
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"When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different."
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"I would not be happy if I had not become a monk."
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"At Length the Fox turnes Monk."
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"'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'"
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