very calm and without worldly passions -- said of a monk
Laoseng ruding, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ǎ OS ē NgR ù D ì ng, which means that the monk sits in silence and makes his mind set in one place without distracting thoughts. It is called ruding. To describe a person sitting quietly. From Nie Hai Hua
The origin of Idioms
In the 20th chapter of Zeng Pu's the flowers of the evil sea in the Qing Dynasty: "when I look at it, I am a black and thin old man. I sit up in danger, as if I were an old monk."
Idiom usage
It is said that man Dong is a barren land, so he is called a hero. Pu Songling's strange stories from a lonely studio Huang Jiulang in Qing Dynasty
very calm and without worldly passions -- said of a monk
repeat the words of others like a parrot - yīng wǔ xué yǔ
confirmed habits are hard to get rid of - jī zhòng nán fǎn
flowers blooming like a piece of brocade - fán huā sì jǐn