How messed up is that?

"You've been a bad Buddhist -- so now you go back to earth but you don't get to take your meat whistle with you this time..."

Those are MY juniper bushes!

Everything I needed to know about religion was found out when my mom told me about the real toothfairy

"waaaaazzzzzzaaaaaap!!"

New meaning to the "Have you been living under a rock?!" cliche.

I masturbated in a cave for 12 seconds and now I'm here to tell you what's no longer up

Damn hippies....

This was the most heartwarming story I've read all day.

I don't have any bad experiences with Buddhists. They just seem to do their own thing and are happy with it. They don't seem to be really into the hardcore saving of people or converting the godless masses.
I say power to them if it floats their boat and they don't try to recruit me.

For a Buddhist nun she's SO hot...
now that that's out of the way,

There weren't exactly any revelations for her to share with us were there. Meh.
Like: What is the ultimate question? Is it Tastes Great or Less Filling? Who wrote the book of love? etc.

All that time in solitude and meditation when she could have been out helping people for six years.

Crap! I hope I dont come back as a chick! Hmmm comeupance is a real biatch.

Yeah, but could she stare holes in rocks like Bodhiharma? hells no, get back in there you and dont come out until you can grab the pebble out of my hand.

Sorry... 12 years... even worse. Sheesh... how about an hour or two a day. Way to waste the limited time you have on Earth.

ThankYouMaskedMan:- Crap! I hope I dont come back as a chick! Hmmm comeupance is a real biatch.

Yeah I know what you mean. I'd never get anything done, cos I'd spend all day playing with my tits.

She spent 12 years down her hole? Must be latent puberty.

/hides

Word for word, the exact same headline appeared on Catch.com.

I guess that's why it's in quotes.

MONKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY !!

HI, I'm crazier than a shi# house rat! Come see my cave full of crap and I could use some MASENGALE.......

Did you really meditate in a cave for 12 years?

Yes.

Really?

Yes.

You?

Yes. I hope this has been enlightening for you.

think

In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heavens sought order. But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essence of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the World". Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it came a stone monkey.
The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!
Mooonkeeeeeeeeeey!

So um, who shot J.R.?

Monkey rules!
Got the 1st series on DVD :))

At least she wasnt sitting around doing nothing.

ffs Killspam you're advertising a polaroid camera in every single thread? If I wanted to get myself banned that's probably how I would go about doing it.

I don't have any bad experiences with Buddhists. They just seem to do their own thing and are happy with it. They don't seem to be really into the hardcore saving of people or converting the godless masses.

You probably don't live in a Buddhist society, you might have a different opinion if you'd met someone from Aum (the loonies who let off sarin gas in underground trains), simply put there are not enough Buddhists in the west to cause any real problems, that why they are so "peaceful".

Would Killspam's act of spamming ever thread with his shiatty camera auction be a correct example of irony?

I have seen an interview with this woman on some show I saw several months ago. She is very well spoken and has her stuff together. I am not a Buddhist myself, but have several friends who are (they aren't the trendy flash-in-the-pan types of buddhist), and they all have a pretty healthy respect for this woman.

Meditated? I don't think so. This is what she did!

Let me guess, another pot smoker who tripped on acid during their best years, hides in a cave, then comes out in middle age and it dawns on them that living on lentils in a cave sucks, and hey, their pious fraud friends in the US are charging $350 for $2 worth of pseudo-spiritual junk, America, here I come!! Now to write a book on how to live in a cave for 12 years, and get Ted Danson to portray me in my own "true" biographical mini-series on ABC...

The first thing she said when she finally emerged from her cave was: 42.

If the answer is 42, the question is: "What is the question?"

Bah, writer can't even seperate the patriarchal traditions of the tantrayana school from the mahayana and theravada schools. Plenty of nuns in Ch'an monasteries. biatch.

Xane : Aum was not a buddhist cult. " It is based in Hinduism; the main god is Shiva, a Hindu god; the training methods are Hindu; their doctrine includes ancient Buddhist and Tibetan teachings; and their eschatology is based in Christianity"

Religion in Japan and
Aum Shinrikyo

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

"Bah, writer can't even seperate the patriarchal traditions of the tantrayana school from the mahayana and theravada schools. Plenty of nuns in Ch'an monasteries. biatch."

Indeed.

Finally a REAL Buddhist, not one of these "fashion buddhists" like we have here in Harvard Square. Every time I see "Zen Tea" it makes me wanna puke. Why don't they make "Jesuit Coffee" and "Hasidic Cola"?

Reno77 you missed my point, in the East there are enough Buddhists to create separatist variant cults like Aum, which admittedly is a poor example, but has Buddhist roots nevertheless. You might want to specify how far Aum is from "true Buddhism", but its probably just as close as the kind of "Hollywood Buddhists" like Richard Gere or even the extremist Buddhism practiced in Tibet.

A good example can be found on Lantau Island near Hong Kong, where Buddist monks eschew the excesses of capitalism in the HK stock market but happily build the biggest ever bronze statue of Buddha on the mountaintop at enormous cost. You can visit this place and discover that Buddhists can be just as high-browed and dogma-obsessed as any Christian group.

If you read between the lines of the article you'll see the real message is how seriously farked up and backward Tibet (and its own brand of Buddhism) really is.

Thats what I like about religion. Even though this one individual was wise enough to have an entire religion based on what they had to say, when something no longer is politically correct it can just be changed.

So just so I understand. Budda was right about everything BUT the being born a chick is punishment thing?

Xane, you aren't Chinese by chance are you?

i found enlightenment with a flashlight

Kevbo:Did you even read the story? She reached that level so she could be recognized as doing something that men can do too. Now she's practicing equality in buddhism and opening her nunnery to help balance the sexual influence on buddhism. You don't call that helping people?
Johnny_Magic:It was great, wasn't it?

Shut...UP

"Original Buddhist teachings had initially granted women spiritual equality, but years of patriarchal social practices had turned nuns into second-rate citizens (much, it should be noted, like the nuns in the Catholic Church)."

Reading is hard.

FarkU_UFarkingFark
Taking the last statement in my post and missing the bigger point so you can feel better about yourself by dogging on someone is easier.

Hear that, biatches? You are women because you are inferior.


Religion == fun!

Shut...UP you made a good point. Interpretation of religion, as with many things, changes based on current desires. Mormanism does this unabashedly by changing the rules as it goes along due to God continuing to communicate with the church elders.

well that just pisses me off

It's funny because it's true.

So she isolated herself from the entire world and concentrated on eliminating all thought from herself, and now she wants to tell us what she learned from the experience.

Very zen.

If she wanted to learn the limits of what a mind can know without sensory experience, she should have read Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason". It's a bit of a timesaver.

"People know that, in the end, getting a new car, or another set of clothing, another Haagan Daz, won't solve their problems," she says. "One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside."

Pretty much the truth. Too bad the majority of us can't even grasp the concept.

She's so dumb that she doesn't even realize how much happiness possessions can bring.

Would you rather have a hot body (yours or someone elses'), a lot of money, and a great computer, or a bunch of lentils and a cave?

She's totally sour grapes.

Capitalism 4 Ever!

(and they said Communism disagreed with religion)

Buddhism will always be more peaceful than judeo-christian religions because it is based on personal growth and self-perfection. The very fact that you waste time on dogmatic discussions or proselytizing signify you didn't get it and need to isolate. Buddhist truths is not some dead pages from old books but actual inner experiences.