On another occasion, as my partner at that time was so good Buddhist, invited me to release animals. To accompany and because basically there are ideas I share with Buddhism, I went. As the release was in trajineras, I wondered what we were going to release ... manatees?, "Carp? Total this band had worms, frogs, brine shrimp, fish and grasshoppers stuffed in bags and containers. Already in the punt gave these people watched bypasses (turns) holding the bags filled with animals, around an altar. That's the part that I did not want to participate, but ... ah, the Buddhist leader as well as handsome was so sweet that I could not refuse when I invited them to bypass, so there I was: in a punt or about a monk, turning around the photo of the Dalai Lama, saying mantras, with a bag of frogs and other grasshoppers in his hands.
And you wonder why or why someone would spin with animals, around an altar? Well, that was so that the bugs have a better rebirth, an idea too metaphysical for my comprehension. Moreover, the animals were purchased at a store, where they would be used as food for other animals, so that Buddhists believe that their good deed was to save them from certain death, but let's face it: how much will have lived the artemia and fish in the water sow Xochimilco? What happened to the frogs in hay? What about the worms when I wanted to take were already dead? Who knows, but yes: what good beef tacos I started at the end of the ceremony.
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