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Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
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id: sikhs-langer
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title: Langar Free Kitchen
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description: >-
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A Sikh practice of preparing and serving a free communal meal to all who
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come, regardless of caste, religion, or status, and eating it together
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seated on the same level. Originating with Guru Nanak in the 15th century
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and central to every gurdwara.
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source: Sikh tradition / Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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source_url: https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Langar
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tags: [sikh, langar, food, equality, community]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Prepare the meal
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description: >-
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Volunteers (sevadars) prepare a simple vegetarian meal — roti, dal,
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vegetables — in the gurdwara kitchen. All food is vegetarian so all
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can eat.
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- headline: Serve to all
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description: >-
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Servers offer the meal to each person who comes, regardless of
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background, caste, or faith. No one is turned away.
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- headline: Sit on the same level
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description: >-
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All eat together seated on the floor in rows, at the same level. The
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equality of the seating is the point — no one sits above another.
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- headline: Clean together
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description: >-
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Volunteers and guests clean the hall, wash dishes, and restore the
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space. Seva (voluntary service) continues through cleanup.
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- headline: Renew the practice
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description: >-
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Langar is prepared daily in active gurdwaras; the practice renews
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itself each day, funded by the sangat (congregation) and served by
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sevadars.
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outcome: >-
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All who come are fed equally, and the equality of shared food embodies
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the Sikh principle that all are equal before the Divine.
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practice: >-
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The same-level seating is the practice — not just the free food. If
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seating is reintroduced hierarchically, the langar is diminished.
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Vegetarian food ensures all can share. |