My parents organized an all-night pirith chanting and alms-giving last weekend. And we were all distressed to find out the state of Buddhism in our home town. Only 2~3 Bhikku’s (Buddhist monk) could pronounce the Paali words correctly and some didn’t bother even to try. Following morning we found some cigarette buds in monk’s resting room. They hadn’t even bothered to hide it. (Buddhist monks (even lay men) are to retain from using alcohol, tobacco, drugs etc.)
But during the alms giving, they didn’t hesitate to order us to provide them with food of their wish. It wasn’t an alms giving at all but a feast. (Lord Buddha once has said; eat as if you were eating your own child’s meat - died while traveling through a desert- , in order for you to survive through the rest of the desert – just enough to keep yourself alive)…
