Merry Buddhamas

by Robert Koehler on May 12, 2008

I would just like to wish readers a happy Buddha’s Birthday holiday.

{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

1 R. Elgin May 12, 2008 at 11:54 pm: Don’t mess with Buddha or else.
2 user-81 May 13, 2008 at 2:17 am: “Don’t mess with Buddha or else.”

When a “Korean wave” comment was made when those people were killed by a two-story storm surge I thought it was insensitive and in poor taste.

Maybe I’m too sensitive, but over 8500 people lost their lives in yesterday’s earthquake and they deserve better than your little joke.
3 Boodah May 13, 2008 at 8:16 am: I guess head monks have grown wise…to the fact that they have an image problem. In an apparent attempt to show austerity, the head monks at the temple I went to weren’t being chauffeured around in Land Rovers and Mercedes Benz but Eqquses (Eqqi?) and Opiruses (Opiri?).
4 R. Elgin May 13, 2008 at 9:03 am: I bow to your political correctness “user”. Please do go and help dig people out with your bare hands then while we applaud your efforts and comment on the nobility of your soul.
5 user-81 May 13, 2008 at 9:25 am: #4: Please do go and help dig people out with your bare hands

If I could, I would.

then while we applaud your efforts and comment on the nobility of your soul.

I’m not a noble person and I don’t deserve applause, but I know better than to make a stupid joke about 10,000+ people dying. That’s not PC, that’s just common decency.

Donate to the Korean Red Cross for help in Myanmar and China:
http://www.redcross.or.kr/rednews?cmd=view&nid=01&seq=3977

Donate to the American Red Cross’s International Response Fund:
http://www.redcross.org/news/in/profiles/Intl_profile_MyanmarCyclone.html

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_subsrc=RCOProfile_Myanmar&s_src=F8DWA001
6 hitest May 14, 2008 at 2:35 pm: And perhaps even though we are overcome with our grief, we can remember to try to do everything we can to prevent the degradation of the natural world and the people who live in it.

Even if it is not with our bare hands.

If I could I would.