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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
They were blessing the food*. Not sure why they did it with a cart. A Buddhist monk used to walk through my local organic-type supermarket regularly and do the same thing.
*actually, blessing the food is not really correct. I think what they were doing was extending loving-kindness towards the food and meditating on it, but I think it amounts to the same thing.
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I always thought Buddists were completely about helping others, but I saw the darker side once.
On vacation in Thailand at one of the touristy temples, I hear the thump-thump of a basketball. Turns out the temple grounds also held a school, and young teens went there to live and be taught Buddism for a year or two. They also had a full court.
Anyway, I find the court, and one of the kids says "5 on 5?" This was the only English I heard in the game. I'm thinking a Buddist b-ball game would be infinite, precise, and beautiful passes to cutting teammates; with no one being materialistic enough to ever shoot.
So we start to run and......I was really wrong. They were the worst ball hogs I've ever seen. They could shoot pretty accurately, but they didn't even think of passing. Passing was so not a part of the game that when I passed, at first, the ball was hitting them and bouncing off. They weren't even thinking of it as an option. The concept apparently didn't translate to their game.
So, always remember, while these nuns were going around blessing the food, they were probably secretely coveting the bacon, or in Atticus' whole food grocery store, perhaps the organic saffron infused tempeh.
Deep even in a Buddist heart, there is some selfishness. Althought, the b-ball guys were really just trainees. Maybe all the ball hogging was sort of a Rumspringa kind of thing.
