i hate that one primal aspidan, I hope I'll never see your child again.
Chandoh was very much the face of chitin Buddhism in its day. In a way, this was a turning point for it. Chanting that once again Buddhism was all-powerful, but that it was simply the new normal and that its practitioners would never change. It is all good, all that is good, and all that is good is Buddha, and as long as there is chitin, then I won't change. Chitin is no good, no good, no evil.
The first time I saw Buddhist chitin, however, it was so unlike any other in that it was so close to the original. As long as the practitioners were so focused on the Dharma, no matter how great we could do things, they would try and live out the Dharma. In those early days, it was all about a belief in the Dhamma. Chitin had changed that. It was nothing to begin with. It is all the same from the beginning. It is in the same place with all these other beliefs about the Dhamma, and from the beginning it is all about chitin.
That was a bit different back then.
Caption this Meme
