Wat Pantip

of course seeing more monks at pantip plaza than yr local wat is nothing new, but the other day i couldn't believe my eyes when i saw 2 monks buy some food coupons and then go around looking for food. Being alone they would have had no-one to formally offer the food, unless the seller obliged. I'm not writing this as another rant about the decline of Buddhism is Thailand, but just wanna point out that it's not inconceivable that one day we may see monks out buying food like us all.

It was funny because just the day before i read one of ajahn Chah's stories about how he was visiting a wat in Saraburi and wouldn't eat the food because it was not offered correctly (they would line the food up and a layperson would touch one end and a monk the other end). He and his monks ate nothing but sticky rice for the few days they had to stay there. Quite a contrast.

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