So I'd like to play a monk, one that doesn't speak

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>>55249206
The problem with feigned wisdom is that, well, it's feigned. Roleplaying someone who is exceptionally wise tends to come off as pretentious and trying too hard. Maybe you should consider a monk who has taken a vow of silence.

But if you're determined to play Phorchewn K'khie the Monk, I would recommend looking up Confucian quotes, Taoist quotes, and Zen koans.


"Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?"

"See a person's method, observe his motive, notice his result. How can a person conceal his character?"

"If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?"

"When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them."

"Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning."

And so on. But I'd really recommend considering the vow of silence. That sort of constraint can end up being a lot of fun and really add to the campaign in ways that being a walking Wikiquote will not.

>>55249206
wat, are you even trying senpai? like how hard can that be?
g. zen buddhist sayings, zen aphorisms, zen koans. pick a random site from the first page, remember few brief ones, forget them in play, come up with you own terrible gibberish.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/zen
http://theunboundedspirit.com/31-zen-buddhist-sayings/
https://pinterest.com/explore/zen-quotes/
http://www.behappyzone.com/zen-quotes.html

>>55249314
Well, he certainly doesn't need to be exceptionally wise. I actually imagined he'd be young and be the first to admit that he has much to learn. But from his time learning from much wiser teachers, he has retained a few things, and offers compact lessons when the memory strikes him.

"No snowflake thinks itself responsible for the avalanche."

>>55249390
Yeah I'll retain them better if I write them down, and studying philosophy can be interesting in and of itself

>>55249206
Get a booklet of haikus and only speak in poems.

>>55249206
Tao Te Ching