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The begging bowl, and certain of it's rules such as "no storing of food" and "no food bearing gardens", insure that EACH DAY monks will encounter lay people and lay people will encounter monks. By their daily example lay people are inspired to greater dedication, humilty, patience and trust. The monks in turn acknowledge their dependence on the community to engage in their practices.
A most famous example of this is King Asoka witnessing a monk crossing a field the day after a huge battle. The king questions the monk. "Way are you walking through this field?" It's the way he walks every day (well maybe not yesterday) on his way to asking for food. "How can you be so calm?" etc., and soon enough the king begins his own Buddhist practices and decrees that his entire kingdom also engage is these practices.
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