Saturday Random Funny ~ The Trouble With Dictatorships
August 4, 2007 by demon princess
Chinese Officials Order Living Buddhas to Get Permission Before Reincarnating
Funny, that is, if not for the fact that it’s so wrong on so many levels.
Actually, the point seems to be to prevent Tibetans from identifying their future spiritual leaders. Apparently that means making a great show of “legalistic” enactments which the dictator righteously follows through with. So it’s alright.
Your Demon, BTW, is not particularly religious, like all liberal elites, but if she were, she’d be Buddhist.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2194682.ece
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I swear to Buddha it makes you scratch your head and wonder…WTF???
Don’t these fuckers have more important things to worry about then this shit?
to answer your qustion…..no.
So Buddha would laugh at them…
I have a kitchen Buddha…Laughing Buddha…because when I was out West I was told to get one…especially if I was a bad cook…or prone to burning things…and have a Laughing Buddha in the Kitchen….to laugh at Danger…and to have more Courage for when I burn things…He sits on the spice rack in top of my stove…he watches the noodles cook…and laughs..
( luckily Buddha has not burned up… yet…)
Permission to reincarnate ?
talk about anal retentive…geez…
Thank you Enigma for that tid-bit of fun. Demon I have to agree with you on this…I’d probably be buddhist too…I like the philosophy of life and the simplicity. Their reading material is just really good too.
I am a Buddhist ( which I wrote about a little in the honor post)…but reincarnation is a hard concept…and I think that some may view it like having dinner reservations for the next life….like oh, what’s next ???….but no one can control what is next…although your actions do set your path…
( my son and I used to spend alot of time trying to think what Hitler should have to return as ______? and now we do it with Bush….I think he should have to come back as a toad and live on a ranch with evil heartless children….)
O-ho! So that’s the magic ~ I need a laughing Buddha to watch my noodles. I am a terribly inattentive cook. No patience.
I’ve studied Buddhism ~ not in any disciplined way, just my own reading, I meditate, & agree, with its tenets generally, that what troubles us most as humans are things we can control–our own reactive, unthinking natures. Meditation os the best way to try to rise above it & get some internal peace.
I’m also just curious enough to investigate what are commonly derided in mainstream American life as “outside” philosophies such as reincarnation. The story, after all, of how the current Dalai Lama was identified is pretty interesting, & eerily accurate. He IS a very remarkable man. Other Buddhist monks are pretty interesting, profound thinkers. So I don’t discount it, & it actually makes a lot of sense to me within that particular framework of thought. It’s the ultimate in the “consequence” principle, except that it’s more sophisticated in scope than Western or Islamic religions (& has been around a lot longer*)~ the concept that you either go to hell or heaven after you die is in fact the crude conceptualization of “consequences,” & probably shows up in the legalistic ways we deal with criminals.
Karma is much more subtle ~ what goes around comes around & you carry your stupid issues with you, like a millstone around your neck, until you work them out & learn compassion for all living beings, including other humans with stupid issues (& we all have them, face it). If I remember correctly, the law of karma does not have rigid hierarchies or “steps,” you come back according to your own stage of development & what you most need to work out. In that sense, you determine your own fate. The richest, most fortunate man can find himself back in the primordial dustheap if he hasn’t learned his lessons, & he’ll have to go back & do it again.
You’re right re Bush, Enigma. He’ll be coming back as the creatures upon which he visited the most thoughtless suffering. He’s got a long, long way to go.
Bush is probably Hitler come back to haunt us all. Now about the toad thing…come back and live on a ranch with heartless children. Probably means the kids would use a bb gun and shoot the poor hapless thing. Well that would be his problem I imagine.
Bush susposedly is also nicknamed “toad exploder”…based on his own heartless childhood pastimes…
If the karma theory is correct *& I fervently hope it is* he’ll start out as a toad & go thru that for a couple of cycles, graduate to other creatures he hurt routinely & just for fun, & finally graduate to a child in Iraq or some other developing country to die from malaria or AIDS or be killed in a war started by a warlike country such as the one he’s turned America into.
I can dream, can’t I?