Christians should watch out about being infected by Buddhists

How u like dem apples?


Seriously though, I imagine they're conflating Buddhism with New Agey stuff, or what Pope Francis refers to as "religion a la carte".

Of course, dem catholics are just heathens in the eyes of the Pat Robertsons of the world.

 

Funny stuff. Never even heard of a proselytizing Buddhist.

 

I guess you never used to go to airports in the old days.

 

"All that we are is a result of what we have thought"

-Buddha

 

Why are old people on TV?

 

Because old people watch TV.

 

Only if you believe your thoughts. Don't believe it. It's not your anyway.

 

There is an element of truth in Mr. Robertson's statement. One of my friends in high school was an AP scholar and #11 rank in his class, but when he shipped off to college got around the wrong crew and starting smoking Buddha. Soon he was addicted and that led him to a spiral of descent that led him to becoming a CPA instead of his dreams of medicine as he had planned out for as a youth. Buddha can be a destructive force in one's life if taken in excess.

 

Or Union Square, present day.

 

Sounds like a call to her supervisor or HR would've been more in line.

 

Back in the mid-'60's I was working for the father of a 20 year old daughter who had left Houston to live in Greenwich Village. Every once in a while he'd complain about her to me. Of course, I thought what she had done was really cool, but kept it to myself. During the summer, she came home for a visit and started working for dear old dad, throwing us into close proximity. Turns out that she'd moved in with a Japanese-American Buddhist and artist who was about 25. She got into his religion, as well as yoga, and had come back without her boyfriend to Houston in an attempt to make peace with her family. That didn't work out, but she was able to pocket some money, and after several weeks she went back. I've never forgotten her. If your typical young female Buddhist is a beautiful and brilliant intellectual, precocious for her age, then sign me up. Her last day in Houston, she made a point of seeking me out and handed me a small hardcover of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, signed by her along with a personal message. I still have it. I could have fallen for her, big time, if she hadn't been spoken for. It's hard to imagine a more gentle, civilized person. Robertson is an idiot anyway, but getting in a dither about Buddhists seems awfully misguided.

 

Ugh, no thanks; there'd be a bull**** complaint for every secret Santa or department Christmas party in retaliation. Pre-internet this would actually be a pretty decent means of letting off steam without sabotaging anyone else professionally or forcing wasteful paperwork.