Sentences with phrase «as monks which»

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Though I can't imagine the close relationship these monks share with God, I would also want to complete the last two parts of my Christian worldview which I feel can not be accomplished as a monk.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6

I note that the researcher in the article which you cited above was careful to choose Buddhist monks for his study and not just anyone as if he did the latter, there would be the possibility that he would encounter persons like myself whose minds dissociate during intense / deep meditation given that the biology of such persons predisposes them to this:

I too at one time used to only associate eastern meditation practices with peaceful Buddhist monks but my experiences made me aware that some persons who engage in eastern meditation practices (which tend to be deep and intense) also experience adverse effects just as I did.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

Many Chinese resented Buddhism as a foreign religion and detested some of its social practice such as self - mutilation and cremation as well as celibacy of the monks which were felt to threaten the family continuity and violate ancestral traditions.

The monastic or «regular clergy,» in their submission to a rule which was construed as a kind of higher ordination, were eventually to be esteemed by themselves and by the world as clergy par excellence, 53 But since this development belongs as much to the next chapter, a few words must here suffice concerning the pastoral function of monks to those outside the community of anchoritic or cenobitic discipline.

«Monks, I know of no other single thing by which a man's heart is so enslaved as by a woman.»

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

If you are following a ketogenic diet than this recipe will work for you as long as you use a sweetener such as the keto maple syrup which contains monk fruit and erythritol, which are natural sweetening agents that do not impact your blood sugar levels.

The place to find monk fruit today is in products, which use this as a natural sweetener.

Also known as luo han guo, which means monk fruit in Chinese — it is said to have been first discovered and used by Chinese monks in the Guilin region where Layn is headquartered - the low calorie, natural sweetener could give stevia a run for its money.

After this morning's jog, he will have lunchwith Steve Wynn, whose name is on the side of the hotel in which we're staying, and an orange - robed Tibetan monk whom Armstrong later will describe as the «Dalai Lama's assistant.»

Some benefits of meditation that are less observable for most people include: falling asleep more easily, more ease in fighting addictions, altered states of mind (which are most prominent in people who have spent over 1,000 hours meditating such as Buddhist monks).

Many of them, he says, focused on such groups as Roman Catholic priests or Benedictine monks, which forbid certain risky behaviors.

I've been a little iffy on monk fruit as a sweetener - I've read a few things linking it to fructose, similar to agave, which had everyone fooled for awhile.

Stress hormones calm down during slow breathing (like # 2 sleep below) and activities that promote the release of acetycholine, which is the opposing hormone to cortisol and has been found in high amounts in calm professions such as monks and clergy.

Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo - Aryan languages which were then...

Healing Scriptures, 1993, 80 pages, Kenneth E. Hagin, 0892765216, 9780892765218, Faith Library Publications, Incorporated, 1993 DOWNLOAD http: / / Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo - Aryan languages which were

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

The monk practising the debate is immersed, in his everyday life of Buddhist and as a tibetan, in a cultural universe filled with songs, music and dances crowned, in a singular relationship to gods whom he knows how he has invented to help him to represent itself and to live the logic of the contradictory which makes the phenomena.

It is at first the rhythm which is looked for by monks and by the sound of which they recognize themselves, recognize their knowledge and have them to recognize as such by the public.

During that time, as the story goes, a Birman's coat turned the golden color of the goddess the monks worshiped, except for his paws which stayed pure white.

Endangered Hawaiian monk seals like to nap on this beach too (as do we)-- to see monk seals is one of the reasons to visit or revisit Kauai (which offers a Monk Seal Education Program).

As part of Luxury Collection, Augustine defines the destination with its deep history and energy inspired by 13th century Augustine monastery which is interconnected with the hotel and still active with 4 monks living there.

During the Trial of the Sword (which was added as DLC last Summer), players encounter a total of seven Sheikah monks.

The game, which launched in 1987, has an elaborate backstory but essentially allows players to be a warrior, martial arts monk, fighting thief or magical white mage, battle monsters and collect weapons, items and spells as they wander through a magical pixelated land.

Buddhism is a recurring influence, emerging in artworks as repeated units, which reference the disciplined regimes of monks.

Shutlz's work exists in a migratory difference — between Berlin and Chicago — while also specifically referencing the displacement of the monk parakeet in Hyde Park that she uses as her subject, which is not native to Washington Park but has made its new home.

These presentations of modern masters and their tribal influences are complemented by the expanded Spotlight section, which will highlight solo artist presentations of 31 pioneers of 20th - century practice, such as Thomas Kovachevich (Callicoon Fine Arts, New York); self - taught artist Felipe Jesus Consalvos (Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia); Barbara Chase - Riboud (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York); and Dom Sylvester Houédard — a Benedictine monk turned counter-culture cult figure of 1960s London (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London).

Blackspace is an editioned painting which was inspired by Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and friend to Ad Reinhardt, who once expressed a desire to have one of the artist's Black Paintings in his cell at the Monastery as an aid to meditation.

A priest at the Ann Arbor temple, Haju Sunim (aka Linda Murray), explained that Dumpster diving is actually a modern variant of an ancient tradition by which Buddhist «patched - robe monks» and nuns reclaimed clothing, sometimes from corpses, and would repair garments repeatedly to extend their life as much as possible.

It's packed with specifics (which is the essence of powerful storytelling) as he tells about how «forest monks» in Cambodia are more effective at protecting forests by making them sacred than any U.N. resolution could hope to be.

Buddhist monk, and media - proclaimed happiest man in the world, Matthieu Ricard recently described this sort of view on society as an «altruistic society» — «one in which we do not care only for ourselves and our close relatives, but for the quality of life of all present members of society, while being mindfully concerned as well by the fate of coming generations.»