Sentences with phrase «time as monks»

In Thailand I understand that all males were encouraged to spend some time as monks.

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The second monk was silent and obviously angry for a long time as they walked and finally burst out «You know we are not allowed to come in contact with women, what were you thinking?»

Ron Dreher calls it the Benedict Option as he believes it is time for Christians to copy the fifth - century monk St Benedict and pursue a «communal withdrawal from the mainstream, for the sake of sheltering one's faith and family from corrosive modernity and cultivating a more traditional way of life».

In the monasteries, also known collectively as the Holy Mountain or The Garden of the Mother of God, the monks spend most of their time in prayer and are purposefully isolated from the outside world.

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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.

As had happened many times in my three years of teaching these same monks, their cultural and religious experiences - so far removed and foreign to mine - had enriched a seemingly mundane conversation on science.

Overlooked has been the fact that even as a young professor and monk, Luther, discussing the Devil at length for the first time, did not hesitate to use explicitly scatological language — and at a highly official affair at that.

Such a recitation of the canon could only take place at an occasion such as the Sixth Council of Buddhism, where thousands of monks were occupied for a long period of time reciting the sutras consecutively.

The interest in Asian religion so manifest in the 1960s can be traced back to his time at Columbia University in the 30s, where he discussed oriental scriptures with a Hindu monk, Mahabarata Bramachari, who also urged him to read Christian mystical literature, such as the Confessions and the Imitation of Christ.

At the same time there was bound up with this a conception and practice as far from hierarchical clericalism as the spiritual autonomy of the monk is from the autocracy of the prelate.

It is impossible to take the scriptures literally as they were copied by monks many times over and usually in accordance to the political agenda of the church.

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth century similar aspirations were felt from time to time, but the only conspicuous Anglican ascetic is the controversial theologian, spiritual guide, and mystical writer William Law, who would certainly have found his place as a monk, or perhaps a hermit, in other ages of the Church.

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All in all, Patrick estimates, the monks were more than five times as likely to be overweight as contemporary merchants and courtiers.

During his time in jail, his approach to life changed — leading him to live as a monk for three years and then share his experiences with the world (chronicled in his popular book, Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons From a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom).

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First - time feature director Carl Erik Rinsch and writers Chris Morgan and Hossein Amini present these events not as a straightforward period piece but as a work of Chushingura, a fictionalized account of the popular story complete with witches, mythical beasts and magical monks.

Dividend investing requires time and patience... just as being a monk!

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.

Buddhism plays a large role in the everyday life of its people and it is not uncommon for young men to spend a short period of time in a temple as monks.

Located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto, this morbid attraction, perhaps best suited for Halloween time, consists of bones from over 4,000 French monks who are said to have fled their home country for the safety of Rome during the French Revolution, and whose bones can now be found decorating the walls of the church's many chapels in intricate patterns such as crosses, flowers, arches, and other happy shapes.

For instance, if a player has a hard time playing a witch doctor because a lot of his abilities seem to require timing, the player could play as a monk instead: charge in, let everybody surround the monk, and then blast them with area of effect attacks.

He additionally spent time as a fully ordained Theravadin Buddhist monk, before reentering conventional society to «walk the middle path.»