• Hildegarde
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    4717 hours ago

    Unless you are capable of violence you cannot be peaceful, only harmless.

  • IninewCrow
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    1451 day ago

    Been to Thailand a couple of times and I always thought Buddhist monks were holy lifelong devotees that never did any wrong. Turns out that there is parts of the country where reformed prisoners have the option to join a monastery as a monk to serve their sentence. So in many places, those tough looking monks you see are actually gang members and criminals serving out a sentence … some of them are honestly reformed, some are working on it, and some are just gaming the system.

  • @logicbomb
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    451 day ago

    Some monks train their bodies either as part of their prayer or meditation, or train in order to be able to pray or meditate longer. They don’t usually end up with arms that look like that, though.

      • @someguy3
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        1019 hours ago

        Probably Tai Chi specifically.

        • Cadenza
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          110 hours ago

          Yeah. But you don’t get this kind of arms doing taichi. Lots of other benefits, though.

  • Jesus
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    141 day ago

    Plan B is soup.

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    111 day ago

    Violence is never the solution, but if backed into a corner and given no other option heck yeah he will ora ora you into oblivion.

    • AItoothbrush
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      115 hours ago

      Theres no ora ora if you get a monk like that to hit you, one hit will put you to sleep.