Monk Quotes

• I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Buddhist
  • Monk

• Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

  

  Walter Map
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Afterwards

• I never really got around to discussing that specific topic which I think it crucially important to understand. If you were a monk in Buddhist time and you had sex, there was a good chance a child would be conceived.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Child
  • Buddhist
  • Discussing

• One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Helping
  • Leader

• Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

  

  Max Roach
  • Music
  • Roles
  • Subservient

• I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Music Business
  • Andy Warhol
  • Xenon

• The fascination of trifles obscures the good,” says the Wise Man. It is difficult in the midst of much doing and seeing to keep alive and present to the deepest reality, to the really real. And so the monk goes apart…

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Wise Man

• At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future disposition of his soul. Traditionally, after he dies, a search party of senior monks would set out to locate his new incarnation, who is most often a boy toddler, who goes on to be trained as a monk and a leader.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Soul
  • Leader
  • Discuss

• I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Coltrane
  • Jelly
  • Armstrong

• So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Nonviolence
  • Monk

• 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.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Years
  • Catholicism
  • Reconcile

• If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heaven
  • Gained
  • Monk

• The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

  

  Anthony of Padua
  • Prayer
  • Monk
  • Recognizes

• If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

  

  Evagrius Ponticus
  • Prayer
  • Spirit
  • Landscape

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Nature
  • Humans
  • Buddhist

• A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

  

  Evagrius Ponticus
  • Man
  • Monk
  • Considers

• Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Thinking
  • Awareness
  • Monk

• If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Advice
  • Kindness
  • Teaching

• This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Friendship
  • Develop
  • Spiritual Life

• The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.

  

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick
  • Tears
  • Natural
  • Atheism

• How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Thoughts
  • Persist
  • Pass Away

• In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Monk
  • Monastery
  • Discharged

• Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Quiet
  • Monk

• When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Goal
  • Destroyed
  • Task

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