It also gives me the opening to ask why such a religious country has such vile practices. Starting, of course, with selling daughters for sex. (Don’t give me the “poverty” excuse. Lot of others around the world suffer poverty, many in countries without as benign a climate as Thailand, and act far more ethically.)

I’ve asked this question to my Thai wife, a devout Buddhist. She agrees with me, but laments it’s not the fault of the religion (except those monks in it for personal gain). She says the religion is good but that people don’t follow it.

It might be because they get vacuous platitudes like this Samádhi Sutra.