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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.
Satish Kumar
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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.
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Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.
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I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
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So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
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You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
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