This is saying that people just pay lip service to Buddhism and treat it as child's play. They talk carelessly without taking responsibility for the cause and effect.
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Although politicians pay lip service to those goals, insufficient effort has been made to structure incentives in that direction.
It is striking that 36 countries at one time or another adopted this system and that five—Cuba, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam and the biggest of them all, China—still pay lip service to it.
Why do managers pay lip service to innovation, but never give innovation projects more time and attention?
Unhappily, he had done no more than pay lip service to their views.
Some people only pay lip service to gender equality.
Some people pay lip service to education, but don't vote taxes for better schools.
OPEC met on Thanksgiving, but shocked markets when its members didn't even pay lip service to the need for production cuts or price discipline.
So many of us simply pay lip service to the phrase "family is my number one priority" yet very few of us actually live it.
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