Quotes About Monastery

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

I've never been with women, because I'm celibate, as ordered by God, as if I were in a monastery. For me, the church is my wife.

dressed to kill Koyasan

I you ask me about the monks, I speak from experience, not prejudice, and though I have no doubt that some foundations are well governed, my experience has been of waste and corruption. May I suggest to Your Majesty that, if you wish to see a parade of the seven deadly sins, you do not organise a masque at court but call without notice at a monastery?

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

The Cistercian monks were known for their practice of eviction.

The abbot, perhaps, of a prosperous and deeply tanned order.

her, so Ama was free to imagine. One day she took some flat bread sweetened with honey and walked the three-hour journey along the trail to Cho-Lung-Se, where there was a monastery. By wheedling and patience, and by bribing the porter with some of the honey bread, she managed to gain an audience with the great healer Pagdzin

Apple actively encourages the population to lose their possessions. Music? Store it on the Cloud. Books? Store them on the Cloud. Film, magazines, newspapers, TV are all safely stored in the ether and not underfoot or stuffed in a closet. It's a modernist monastery where the religion is Apple itself.

And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show the younger guys it can be fun instead of taking a note out of everyone else's books and letting it drive you insane? -Jonas

Mrs. Bascomb greeted them with the same surprised tone she might have used if she were traveling and happened to run into them at a Buddhist monastery in Sri Lanka.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Abbots and priors and monks, oh my.

Abbey of Cluny

but the earliest written evidence suggests that the monastery was established in the decades either side of 700,

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Recently he had been sent into Burgundy to buy a quantity of wine for the monastery. This was a very unwelcome task for him, because he had no head for business. Furthermore he was lame, and he could not move around the boat except by rolling himself over the casks. However he did not bother himself about it, nor about the purchase of the wine. He said to God that it was His business he was on, and then he found that he did the job very well.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Shaolin was the first known Buddhist monastery to develop its own fighting system—quite unusual for a religion whose pacifism rivals that of the Quakers.

Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.

In their attempts to date Zen Buddhism's official debut in America, many historians follow the lead of Rick Fields and cite the significance of the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago; others point to the subsequent arrival of a particular teacher. The undisputed fact is that it was not here until the twentieth century, and it was not able to flourish until a monastery was established at Tassajara in 1967.

Eu suspeitava que o que o atraía no mosteiro não era tanto a possibilidade de escapar ao chamamento dos prazeres carnais, mas sobretudo a possibilidade de se livrar da esgotante e taciturna sucessão de pequenas preocupações da vida quotidiana (...). Ao menos, no mosteiro, dão-nos cama, mesa e roupa lavada - e como bónus, no melhor dos casos, a vida eterna.