Originally Posted by
SoberLeigh 
Consider what the Tao Te Ching says about the "Ten Thousand Things"! Beware! Beware of the "Ten Thousand Things". Focus rather on the Tao, the only "reality", but its nature cannot be spoken nor written. It might be described as a river and yet ..... As for Costco (alas!) and the Ten Thousand Things, they are but illusion. Soap bubbles.
But then again, you gotta eat. You can't get far on soap bubbles! Pass the salt please! Right now I'm in for a toasted cheese sandwich! If you don't put something in that Buddhist's begging bowl they might get you reincarnated into a cockroach.
Better play it safe!
Bon appetit!
W.