He believed whatever one wag once set of monks, "I sleep, I eat, I digest," and they prayed, of course.

他对修士们的态度就像某个僧侣说的,"吃了就睡,睡了再吃",当然他们也会祈祷

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Peter, as Lindsey Hughes has argued, was highly suspicious of any alternative to state service, especially the monastic way of life, which I've already said.

正如林赛·休斯所说的那样,彼得对任何以其他方式服务国家的行为,都持怀疑态度,尤其是僧侣生活,这我在前面已经提到过了

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You also do walking meditation, you can do mantra meditation, you can do all sorts of meditations that can be seen as a step towards maintaining the state of mindfulness at all points of your daily life, which is impossible unless you're a monk for a very long time.

还有行禅，曼怛罗冥想，你可以进行各种冥想修行,都可被视为正迈向,在日常生活的每时每刻,保持警醒，这几乎不可能实现,除非你是修行多年的僧侣。

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He was not against the church, but he thought that people were wasting time being monks, and other people were all over the place in their Russian Orthodox equivalent.

他并不反对东正教,但他认为人们当僧侣,简直就是浪费时间,所有的人在东正教堂里都是地位平等的

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