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PREACHER (Looking out at basketball court): "I can't believe we're losing to the Zen Buddhists. A team that intentionally loses to show the impermanence of the material world! And still they beat us!" ---From a "Kudzu" comi
ZEN HOOPS No. 2 "THE CROWD GETS QUIET and the moment starts to become the moment for me. That's part of the Zen Buddhism stuff. Once you get in the moment, you know you're there." ---Michael Jordan, explaining to reporters the mental state that led to his at-the-buzzer jumper that gave the Chicago Bulls an 87-86 win -- and the 1998 NBA championship -- over the Utah Jazz.
BUDDHIST BEER "IF YOU EVER reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose." ---From a "Deep Thoughts" postcard
KARMIC BEAT "I DON'T CARE how many bodyguards you got around. If they don't want to, there's always a way for you to get touched. Why do you think niggas carry guns? Some brothas will kill others not 'cause they want to, but because niggas is going at them. But in reality, we all losin'. You shoot me, I'm dead, you're in jail and you got two fucked-up families left. If you get away with it and don't go to jail, that shit will come back at you. What's that shit called when you pay the price later for something you did now? ---From a 1995 "Seconds" magazine interview
ENLIGHTENED CRUISE "IT CAN TAKE several lifetimes to reach a state of inner peace and tranquility. Or it can take a couple of weeks.Concentrate deeply. Think about a 14-day ocean journey to Singapore, or Bali, Thailand or China. Days when every whim is anticipated. Instantly met. Places where the sights, smells, lights are a sensual feast imagination can't do justice. Now, a flash of insight. Royal Caribbean will soon take you to the Far East... Don't put it off another lifetime." ---Royal Caribbean Cruise Line magazine ad
THE PEOPLE'S KARMA "FOR THE PERSON who hit and damaged my car on Kroger's parking lot and then drove away like a coward. You will pay sooner or later, and perhaps in some other manner. But what you give, you do get back." ---Anonymous comment phoned in to the "Vent Line,"
PLAYPEN BUDDHISM "TRADITIONALIST CULTURE warriors routinely complain that religion has been banished from popular culture, save for purposes of ridicule or when a celebrity wishes to indulge a taste for recreational Buddhism..." ---August 21, 1998 Wall Street Journal on the
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