along those lines, I caught the end of a documentary "urgan child of the himalayas" on one of the VOOM channels.
As far as I could gather, it was the story of a young boy (non-fiction) who is taken by his family to be a monk. Full of verve and excitement, and suddenly he is in the monastery, told to shut up and start chanting his mantras.
I have to admit, I felt terrible for him. A boy of say 9 years, forced to be an ascetic, in a monastery in the middle of nowhere. The last shot is of him reading a mantra late at night to his mentor. Suddenly he stops and asks, "Do you like cricket? Have you played cricket?"
I have to understand, however, that SU would put us in the same category as this boy. We are in the monastery in the desert chanting mantras when we could be sipping wine and banging rich non-Mormon chicks.
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