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Sujato
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Hi, I'm Bhanid Sujato, I'm a Buddhist monk born in Perth. Before I was a monk, I was a musician and played guitar in a band for a number of years. Eventually I got a bit bored of it and a bit fed up, and I wanted to look for something else in my life. So without really knowing what I was doing, I wandered to Thailand where I entered a meditation retreat, stayed in a monastery for a number of weeks just practicing meditation. I loved it so much that I decided I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing that, so I decided to become a Buddhist monk; so I shaved my head, put on these robes that you see and that's what I've been doing for the last nearly 20 years. At the moment, I'm living in a monastery called Santi Forest Monastery which is about two hours drive outside of Sydney. We have a big bush property, trees and caves, and we live there practicing meditation and studying the Buddhist teachings.