Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
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I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.Satish Kumar
Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
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They have only handwritten manuscripts, because you can write very small and then you can carry the most basic manuscripts with you.
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One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
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If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
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That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
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