seanpat

Someone got paid

If I was stuck in a Thai prison, I think I would welcome covid

The article is a joke or misleading. I have spent a lot of time in temples meditating and have dozens of books on Buddhism. But I very rarely engage in conversation with a Thai about Buddhism (even with my students from an elite university) because most don't have a clue. Regularly going to a temple to pray for lottery numbers or good luck on an exam, does not make one religious. It makes them mindless

Can you speak fluent Thai?

If not, maybe why you rarely engage in conversation talk with them.

I speak about Buddhism/other religions and spirituality with Thais more than any other nationality.

Neeranam this isn't a language issue, it is an issue of actually understanding the religion one claims to follow. When you get a PhD tell you that as a child she was colicky and the Thai Buddhist way of getting over such symptoms is to take the kid to 9 temples in one day to pray, then I'd say this highly educated person, misinterpreted what Buddhism is supposed to be about. I can have conversations about Buddhism with Thais, just not with that many and really only with ones who actually meditate. Otherwise, the conversations you have Neeranam, will be full of superstition and falsehoods.

The article is a joke or misleading. I have spent a lot of time in temples meditating and have dozens of books on Buddhism. But I very rarely engage in conversation with a Thai about Buddhism (even with my students from an elite university) because most don't have a clue. Regularly going to a temple to pray for lottery numbers or good luck on an exam, does not make one religious. It makes them mindless