Sentences with phrase «monks do»

Zen monks don't know much about muscle, but they know a lot about living long, unstressed lives.

Along the way I became a Catholic and then an oblate of the community — a lay member who promises to, as much as possible, make use of the same framework for life that the monks do: the Rule, frequent Eucharist, daily devotions, the incorporation of silence.

They added that the monks do not make it for profit but just to make a living and any profit is given to charity.

A New York Times article tells the story of the women who run the organizational side of LaserMonks, along the way describing the hobbies that many of the monks have but neglecting to mention that the monks do their heavy share of manual labor in the business and on their property.

When he asked attendees to raise their hands if they have a smart phone, 98 % did, only the few dozen brown - clad monks did not follow suit.

«We hear monks doing all sorts of ridiculous things with their voices, plaguing us with womanish falsettos, spavined cleating, and tremolos.

A new generation of monks is involving itself widely in educational and social projects, as well as spiritual counseling for the many visiting pilgrims, just as monks did in medieval Russia.

His first book, The Way of the Prisoner (Lantern, 2003), deals with centering prayer and abounds with examples of how ordinary Christians can practice what ancient monks did in their cells.

At a wedding or a funeral the religious leaders of Islam were asked to say prayers and recite passages, just as the Buddhist monks did in the temples.

It seemed to him that the monks did not live very well.

Even at their most harmonious, the Buddhist principle that «a monk does not bow down before a king» is maintained.

Historical records suggest that monks did eat better than peasants — and that both had poorer diets than nobles.

The monk does a handstand on two fingers.

(The fact that it's a term that was occasionally applied to monks doesn't salve the self - inflicted wound.)

Not exact matches

«Governor Carney redefined the office of the governor of the Bank of Canada,» said Lee, describing the general public persona of previous governors as «monks in the monastery,» speaking in an «econo - geek» language that didn't often resonate with Canadians at large.

It has been difficult for monks to do our duties.

While the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist monk, does not often speak about business explicitly, choosing instead to focus on teachings about compassion and peace, he sounded a lot like an aging CEO preparing to pass the reins.

I believe with all my heart that the monks who burned themselves did not aim at the fatality of their oppressors but only at a change in their policy.

I haven't been to a lot of these, but if I go to another hundred, I don't expect to hear a discussion like the one the monks had.

Does this awareness prompt these monks to follow any rituals, say any prayers, or make any sacrifices?

I do not need a priest, or an imam, or a monk or a shaman to tell me what God is saying and surely God needs no middleman to hear me.

Monks and nuns don't get busted and they live concecrated lives as well.

Many monks eat in their meals in silence... so don't go expecting to chat it up during lunchtime!)

I am sure these Monks came out of Women «You know what» so Y hate them so much... If God made women then she should and can do anything and can go anywhere... What a sad life these gays have... LOL

Just because woman haven't been THERE for a thousand years doesn't mean that individuals can't leave to recruit new monks.

The Augustinian monk Martin Luther definitely did not hold it:

But don't assume monks who live in monasteries and dedicate their lives to prayer aren't feeling pressure in this economy.

a retired franciscan monk in USA said recently that children offered themselves to the clergy.CNN did the story on it.

We had one fundamentalist girl, I'll call her Laurie, who was just fascinated by the place and didn't really know how to relate with the monks.

In any case, these isolated monks certainly don't seem to doing any damage (unlike most of us), and they're preserving a pretty unique tradition.

This isn't about to get to heaven, nor do any of those say that because they are a monk they will go to heaven.

The same kind of monks that lived 1700 years ago, who considered women, unclean and unworthy, as they do today.

Simon thinks the only reason he and his crew were granted access to the monks, many of whom had never done interviews, was a story they did on the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the global community of 300 million Greek Orthodox Christians.

«He does not speak to me,» the monk answered, «because he has already said everything, through the Gospel and through the works of the Holy Fathers, of the saints.»

Like in all Orthodox monasteries, is you go as a visitor they welcome you and you are welcome to stay for as long as you want, without asking for money, as a guest, you don't have to become a monk.

Rinzai did not force the monk to express his true self; he enticed him to do so and to do so creatively.

'» Bishop Basil, who served the Orthodox Church in America, became a frequent visitor to Russia after the Soviet collapse, did precisely that» no matter the personal inconvenience» often to the chagrin of moaning monks dragged along for the ride.

The monk bursts into tears, an involuntary act, as he asks heaven what he can do to comfort his destroyed hometown and begin to rebuild his house of worship.

but i believe god will punish people that were very sinful (like hitler, not a average person that does bad things) i just cant see god punishing people for simply not believing in him, a Buddhist monk that does nt do anything bad goes to hell for simply not believing?

He lived as a group monk, prayed his office and practiced penance, and did all the things he was supposed to do.

Even if, by some remote chance, he did exist, his words were never recorded and left for posterity.Those words you are devoted to are made up by scribes and monks, with an agenda.

Why did so many medieval monks, saints and mystics inflict pain on themselves?

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:

Based on your comments above regarding the Buddhists monks, it is clear / obvious that if I didn't experience adverse effects when engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation but instead experienced oneness and tranquility just like the Buddhist monks then for sure, you wouldn't accuse me of being an unorthodox enthusiast engaging in self - manufactured religion.

This concern with the peculiar status of the monk is the leitmotif of the volume Contemplation in a World of Action (1973), which brought together a large number of Merton's essays and conference papers on the monastic life done during the»60s.

He had shed any romantic notion of the monk as a cowled figure padding about a cloister garden and had come to define the monk, as he did in a talk he gave just weeks before his death, as a «marginal person who withdraws deliberately to the margin of society with a view to deepening fundamental human experience» (cf. Asian Journal, 1973, p. 305).

The lives of most of us do not resemble those of monks.

Not proven beyond a doubt but by referencing various written works by many of his «disciples» and others (monks etc) over 600 years AD who all had the exact same story though threatened with death etc it seems HE did live.

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?