“How’s your weekend?”
Friend #1: “How’s your weekend?” Me: “Great. I got to make bacon, egg and cheese breakfast boat baguette for the monks” F#1: “Monks eat meat too?” She said surprisingly. Me: “Yes, in Theravada tradition, monks do eat meat.” Since I knew that she only knows certain Buddhist traditions that don’t eat meat, I added “Different traditions, different interpretations (of the Buddha’s teaching). The Buddha never said not to eat meat”…