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People pray as a form of displacement activity. If you have a problem that you can't/won't do anything about you worry and feel discontented. If you set yourself a task that you can easily complete: eating; playing a computer game; praying, etc. you gain a sense of having done something worthwhile and having achieved something, so the worry goes away... for a while.
Prayer has a double impact here because it also gives you a sense that you're doing something that will solve the problem.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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