tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31875695.post1320937589364122341..comments2024-02-07T21:24:37.121-08:00Comments on Blogtrotter: Nightstand Buddhists, daytime readingJohn L. Murphy / "FionnchĂș"http://www.blogger.com/profile/16616876266772470719noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31875695.post-60275776084830602972010-04-06T15:30:09.335-07:002010-04-06T15:30:09.335-07:00Just remember that if you ever meet the Buddha, ki...Just remember that if you ever meet the Buddha, kill him!tamerlanenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31875695.post-28610902922151220632010-04-05T13:27:36.297-07:002010-04-05T13:27:36.297-07:00We went to visit the site at Anuradhapura when we ...We went to visit the site at Anuradhapura when we were in Sri Lanka a couple of years ago. Also went a couple of monasteries and temples which didn't enchant me as much as the ones I went to in Bangkok in 2002. I remember one set close to a busy street which was filled with clocks - large ticking ones with pendulums - but there was real feeling of tranquility in there, heightened by its location and the city chaos that lay just outside.Tony Bailiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17747493009715601398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31875695.post-15486293706126333762010-04-04T14:33:03.630-07:002010-04-04T14:33:03.630-07:00If I may, from a friend of mine via FB: Harry Robe...<i>If I may, from a friend of mine via FB: Harry Robert Harper commented on your note "Nightstand Buddhists, daytime reading":</i><br /><br />"I remember walking into a Buddhist temple in Singapore and seeing a thirty foot tall sitting Buddha in the front and with two older grey haired chinese women kneeling, looking up at it, with tears streaming down their faces and intense emotion and devotion beaming from them. It reminded me of altar calls to accept Jesus. Exactly like it. It unnerved me. I had thought of Buddhism as beatnik and coolly detached, and here was hausfrau zealotry... all these wells dug to the same river I guess."John L. Murphy / "FionnchĂș"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16616876266772470719noreply@blogger.com