>Letting go of attachment is a
>very important Buddhist principle.
>So the practice of eating
>only what is given to
>you works within that, especially
>in a Buddhist country where
>living simply is not only
>seen as a good in
>itself but is something that
>many people do for at
>least a part of their
>lives.

On a semi-related note...

I remember reading somewhere that Buddhist monks have to accept whatever is given to them during their begging rounds. There was an anecdote about a monk who ate a leper's thumb that fell in his begging bowl, and the Buddha himself supposedly died from food poisoning--either from poisonous mushrooms or bad meat.


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