{"id":1363,"date":"2024-07-01T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T00:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T00:06:29","slug":"i-have-forsaken-all-desire-buddha-tells-macdonalds-employee-trying-to-serve-him-a-big-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Have Forsaken All Desire,\u201d Buddha tells MacDonalds Employee Trying to Serve Him a Big Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local McDonalds \u2013 Waiter Timothy McFries reported confusion to his manager. McFries complained that McDonalds had not adequately trained employees in customer management, especially when it comes to consistent Buddhists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to McFries, the Buddha walked into to MacDonalds and sat down but refused to eat anything. \u201cNo, no\u201d Buddha said. \u201cI must reject desire. I must. I must. I must. I must turn away from the desires of the flesh that yearn to take a bite of that succulent piece of meat you tempt me with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBut why else would you come to MacDonalds if not to satiate your hunger for cheap food?\u201d A befuddled McFries asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cDesire is the cause of all suffering.\u201d Buddha explained to the confused employee. \u201cTake Taco Bell, you desire a juicy taco. In fact, you crave it. But then, a couple hours later, it causes hours of suffering and stomach cramps. See, your desire was quite literally the cause of suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By publishing time, the Buddha had not yet rejected the desire to live and decided to eat after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today The local McDonalds \u2013 Waiter Timothy McFries reported confusion to his manager. McFries complained that McDonalds had not adequately trained employees in customer management, especially when it comes to consistent Buddhists. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to McFries, the Buddha walked into to MacDonalds and sat down but refused to eat anything. \u201cNo, no\u201d Buddha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}