Jožo: Well, they don’t exactly need it to meditate. It’s more just to create a kind of atmosphere. But you have to concentrate on the mandala. It’s this diagram that depicts the world – even the little one in your head.

Olga: And you believe in that stuff?

Jožo: And who said I believe in it? I started meditating because I like it. That doesn’t mean I’m a Buddhist. And by the way, I don’t believe in reincarnation.

Olga: And why are you getting so upset. Surely I didn’t make such a big deal of it?

(Pavla and Suong arrive)

Pavla: Hi! Wow, what’s that? Some kind of Asian art or something?

Jožo: No, it’s a nandala, right Olga? (Jožo shoots Olga a meaningful glance.)

Olga: Hmm, no. As I just learned, it is some kind of mandala, and apparently it has something to do with Buddhism. Apparently they look at it and meditate.

Pavla: I heard that some people can go on looking at things like that for, like, hours at a time. But that seems kind of nuts to me. Do you really do that?

Suong: orry, but it’s probably no more nuts as staring half the day at a monitor, is it?

Pavla: Yeah alright, but at least there’s also something happening on the monitor for that half a day. There’s nothing going on here. Isn’t it boring?

Jožo: Hmm, if you say so. I don’t want to argue with you.

Pavla: I don’t want to argue either. I don’t want to have anything to do with religion. People always get brainwashed by it.

Olga: Oh what a statement! You heard that on television sometime, right? It’s easy to have an opinion on something when you don’t understand it, isn’t it?