[Groop] My story
Sean McCoy
woodchuck777@hotmail.com
Mon, 01 May 2000 09:29:34 PDT
whats a mendicant???
>From: Iain Bryan <mrbisco@pacbell.net>
>To: groo <groop@groo.com>
>Subject: [Groop] My story
>Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:00:39 -0700
>
>Hi all,
>
>I sent this story to ME in the hopes it would get published, but it
>wasn't. Boo hoo hoo hoo! So, I'll share it with you kind peeps. This
>story is true.
>
>A friend of mine, and I spent the last year visiting various meetings in
>San Francisco. We are Buddhist and rather than going to a temple or
>church or synagogue or whatever, Buddhists have monthly meetings in
>their homes. The city is broken up into 34 different districts so that
>ppl who live near each other can support one another.
>
>We decided to visit every single district, which no one had done
>before.
>A little while back we completed our quest. We visited the final
>district. And when the meeting ended, a man stood up and said:
>
>"Let us thank our two MENDICANTS who have come...blah blah blah.."
>
>My mouth just dropped. I couldn't believe what I had heard...he'd even
>used the term correctly.
>
>Is this amazing or what?!?! Am I think first Groopie to be called a
>mendicant? Or am I just the first to admit it. Either way, I am
>tremendously proud.
>
>Take care all,
>
>iain
>
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