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I am a simple Buddhist monk. -- Dalai Lama
I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk. -- Burton Cummings
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less. -- Dalai Lama
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. -- Cameron Diaz
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point. -- Frederick Lenz
A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life. -- Frederick Lenz
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate. -- Frederick Lenz
Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay. -- Dalai Lama
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world. -- John Burdett
Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength. -- Dalai Lama
Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning. -- Richard Davidson
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life. -- Dave Wakeling
I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal. -- Dalai Lama
For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality. -- Madonna Ciccone
I am a simple Buddhist monk -- Dalai Lama
I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less. -- Dalai Lama
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. -- Dalai Lama
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point. -- Frederick Lenz
A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life. -- Frederick Lenz
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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

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