A lot of people seem to labor under the misapprehension that what practicing Buddhism calls for are merely such activities as doing seated meditation, recitation of Buddha’s name and recalling his great deeds, performing all the worshipping-Buddha rituals, poring over the Buddhist Scriptures and so on. I would beg to aver that this is misapprehension! A practitioner is of course a mortal. As mortal beings, none of us, the laity as well as the monastic practitioners, is isolated from the everyday mundane life. Everybody needs to consume food, to have clothes to put on, and to be sheltered from the elements. Those practitioners who do not lead a monastic life need to support their families. Therefore neither a practitioner nor a lay person is entitled to be supported or provided for by somebody else merely because he or she practices Buddhism. He or she should be called deliberately bedeviling the community or family he or she belongs in, if pretentiously claiming to be so entitled.