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" I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey. "
Friend
Journey
Mine
" If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. "
World
Enlightenment
Speak
" If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. "
Attitude
You
Nature
" I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother. "
Mother
See
Used
" It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads. "
Important
Tea
See
" I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world. "
Rest
Being
Expense
" 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. "
Before
Month
Cemetery
" Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food. "
Three
Will
Water
" 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. "
Said
Because
Book
" So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. "
Monk
Age
Practicing
" 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. "
Childhood
Day
Morning
" This gives us more time to attend the inner need. "
Need
More
Gives
" We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road. "
Walking
Two
Road
" With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land. "
Land
Say
Exaggeration
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