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> If the Buddha Came to Dinner
> How to Nourish Your Body to Awaken Your Spirit
> By Halé Sofia Schatz with Shira Shaiman
> Published by Hyperion March 2004; $14.95US/$22.95CAN; 0-7868-6883-X
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> If the Buddha came to dinner at your home, what would you serve? Fast food?

Some enlighenment from http://www.organicconsumers.org/Orga...kies100801.cfm

'Oppen does confess to a sense of guilt when eating processed foods or having
something with dairy in it, a type of guilt, or lack thereof, that Bratman
addresses in one memorable story of his book. He tells in detail of the time
the Karmapa, an important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, came to visit a
Buddhist household here in the U.S. The residents of the devout home went to
great pains to prepare a whole-grain vegan lunch complete with fresh-pressed
carrot juice, only to have it waved away when the Karmapa arrived. According
to the translator, the Karmapa made an announcement that shocked his vegan
entourage.

"This man, this Karmapa, believed to be an embodiment of wisdom and a fount
of understanding, capable of miracles on earth and of consciously
reincarnating after death, this divine figure asked to go to McDonald's."

Bratman recounts, "It appeared that he was inordinately fond of Big Macs." '

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Orga...kies100801.cfm