Kabir Bedi Quotes

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

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.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

Before the [Buddhist] priests are big trays of delicacies, Behind them lurk graceful nuns. … Kings and Lords only love that little thing

I want to live with a monk... and the Rolling Stones.

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

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?

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.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

I should have been a Trappist monk.

In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

The voice that called us years ago still calls us today. Every monastic day is a new monastic beginning.

Playing a sadhu is not easy at all.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

Laos is a deeply Buddhist country, and my visit included a traditional Tak Bat ceremony, in which you get up at sunrise and make offerings to Buddhist monks.

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.

All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there - cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.