Yesterday, we started our Pali and Abhidhamma class after lunch, so I did have a few hours free in the morning. I met some young sayalays, some are half-orphans, and some without parents. I followed them wandering around the Thabarwa centre. We did chanting together and circling around the pagoda. Then they showed me their favourite places and trees. Their favourite stick was stuck among the branches, so we tried to hit it with a stone or another branc h to make it fall down. On the way to a monastery, the young nuns saw flowers on the ground, and they were happy. They plucked the flowers, and I suggested them to offer them to the Buddha. After paying respect to the Buddha statues in a nearby pagoda, they pointed to me a tree that had many fruits (the name is Ji thi), and then they were busy collecting the fruits. Then they saw a statue of ascetic that is sitting on the ground, and they hug it like old friends. (You can see in the photos attached.) Normally, the childre...
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