New Jersey Tot Wipes out Hours of Monks' Work
A New Jersey tot has made his inadvertent mark on an intricate sand display created by Buddhist monks.
The monks have been building a sand mandala in Jersey City's municipal building since Monday. It's a flat, multicolored display that is created and then destroyed in a ceremony meant to symbolize the fleeting nature of life.
The Jersey Journal (http://bit.ly/1feKs6a ) reports the young boy climbed over a rope barrier Friday and got onto the 4-foot-square display. The sides and middle were smudged as a result.
Some of the monks began working to restore the sand Friday before its ritual destruction.
27 April 2014, 03:08
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Any monks who are working on restoring that Mandala are not worthy of their orange cloth. That little boy had already overcome the unlikely and performed the ritual destruction himself. Does the childhood of Tenzin Gyatso ring a bell?
Whatever happened to the Third Precept, "Thou shalt interpret every phenomenon as an interaction of the Life-force with thy Self"?
Just goes to show that corruption isn't limited to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions...
27 April 2014, 03:11
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...And in a related story, New Jersey governor Chris Christie's aides order the blockade of the bridge between East and West...
