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Sometimes chanting doesn't work

Chanting

I wonder what she was chanting:

KUALA LUMPUR: Health officers who raided a shop lot recently were taken aback when they found a woman in her 50s chanting in a back room, while holding joss sticks.

The smoke from the joss sticks was so thick that the officers' eyes began to water.

A Health Ministry source said the shoplot in Jalan Gombak was raided after receiving a tip-off that a syndicate stored illegal medicines and sex stimulants smuggled from abroad there.

The woman, they learned, was hired to chant prayers and mantras to turn away anyone raiding the premises.

"This latest success was the result of a month's worth of surveillance and intelligence gathering...

Read the full article here.

2 comments

markp

It is obvious from the description that this has nothing to do with chanting NMRK. But even if she was chanting the Daimoku it wouldn't necessarily protect the criminals, only her.

brooke

Thanks, MarkP. You are correct. The article did not say that she was chanting daimoku, it just said she was chanting. I thought it was kinda hilarious, though, with her sitting in a smoke-filled room, chanting for others to evade the law and, perhaps, evade karmic retribution. Bwaahahahaaa.

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