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Why don't I have kids???

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Why don't I have kids???#1

Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:21pm

Because I do not have the patience of a monk....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The little boy spotted the pretty pile of colored sand on the floor of the vast hall and couldn't resist. Slipping under a protective rope, he danced all over the sand, ruining the carefully crafted picture.

Never mind that it was the creation of eight Tibetan monks who had spent two days cross-legged on the floor of Union Station, meticulously pouring the sand into an intricate design as an expression of their Buddhist faith.

They were more than halfway done with the design -- called a mandala -- on Tuesday when they ended their work for the day and left. The little boy showed up sometime later with his mother, who was taking a package to a post office in the hall.

"He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it," said Lama Chuck Stanford, of the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City.

A security tape shows the boy's mother returning to the mandala, grabbing her son by the arm and walking out of camera range.

The monks saw the destruction Wednesday.

"No problem," Geshe Lobsang Sumdup, leader of the group from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India, said through a translator. "We didn't get despondent. We have three days more. So we will have to work harder."

The monks are on a yearlong tour of the United States and Canada to raise money for their monastery. The original monastery in Tibet was destroyed.

In a ceremony Saturday, they will sweep up the sand and offer bits to onlookers for their gardens. The rest will be placed in the Missouri River.

"The belief is that it will carry the blessings all over the planet, from the Missouri River to the Mississippi to the gulf and to all the oceans of the world," Stanford said.

Toddler destroys Sand Mandala

AC126748

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re: Why don't I have kids???#2

Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:24pm

Can the Monks rent a nun to beat the boy's ass?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

Anakela

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re: Why don't I have kids???#2

Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:24pm

but, you don't uuuunderstand, it's so haaaaard raising children, you'll see, it's different when it's your ooooown!

/rolls eyes

TheatreDiva90016

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re: Why don't I have kids???#3

Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:25pm

"Why don't I have kids???"

Cause you are a big ol' 'mo.....

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re: Why don't I have kids???#4

Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:26pm

And why, pray tell, was this child left alone to do such a thing?

I'd rather the mother were beaten.

cheezedoodle

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re: Why don't I have kids???#5

Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:28pm

"Hell, Merle always said the best way to have a kid is with beans at a bar-b-que." - Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean.

"Oh Link...your pork is ready..." - Edna Turnblad

Rathnait62

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re: Why don't I have kids???#5

Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:28pm

I'd be more concerned about the destroyed monastery.

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Borstalboy

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re: Why don't I have kids???#7

Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:28pm

Use condoms

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