Published by Swiss James on 21 Feb 2008
Buddhism, Rules
People try to tell you that Buddhism is a very cool and laid back religion. A bunch of guys in colourful robes sitting around thinking about whether toast can ever be truly bread again.
Not true.
I once spent a night in a temple, and those monks were on my back like the bad tempered Chief of Police in a Mel Gibson movie
- “You can’t sit there”
- “We wake up at 4am for prayers”
- “You must eat all of the food in your bowl”
- “Stop trying to melt that gold statue with a cigarette lighter”
That was in Korea but the same goes here, look at this list of rules posted outside XiaHai temple:
No peddling paper money for the nether world or divining fortune by the Eight Diagrams? Screw that.
Stick to Islam I reckon, those guys know how to party.