When she was a student at Bogan High School, Mariyah Green said she was warned her refusal to participate in a “Puja initiation rite” — part of the school’s “Quiet Time” meditation program sponsored by the David Lynch Foundation — would cost her a spot in Bogan’s basketball program.
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“Therefore, on the second day of this training in Transcendental Meditation, Mariyah told the instructor that her knee was injured in order to avoid kneeling before the image of a man in a photograph on a table in the middle of the room, that she described as looking like Buddha.”
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