Telling Buddhist Thai monk Piya Piyawajako that he’s worn the same white cotton pants to their monthly meditation for over seven years.
Piya Piyawajako, a Thai monk who endorses simplicity and minimalism to achieve calm and contentment, joked that The Idiot’s white pants, which he’s worn to their monthly meditation sessions in Northern California for seven years, might be put in his monastery’s museum near San Jose, CA.
(Photo: Liz Chapin)
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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