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---H.H. the Dalai Lama,
"SUMPTUOUS BELGIAN Chocolates Launched By Nirvana Chocolates on Internet": Chocolate lovers can customize orders of the best chocolates this side of heaven. If you want to hit the ultimate sweet spot, click on to www.nirvanachocolates.com. That's where you'll reach Nirvana Chocolates, the web site home of the freshest, high-quality, luxury Belgian chocolates... ---From a newspaper press release
Uh... YOU SURE YOU GOT THAT RIGHT? ...NOTHING SEEMED REAL TO ME but our lovemaking. Then you were gone and I was left here wanting you all the time... The first of the Buddha's fourfold truths is that life is suffering. The second is that suffering is caused by desire. Desire hurts by definition because it means you don't have what you want. Even so, people want desire itself. We want to want even more than we want to be satisfied. I mean, which is better: the moment before you come, or the moment after? Men don't want orgasms; we want erections... So together we are practicing an inverted Buddhism: finding nirvana through desire, heightening it, deepening it, gloating over it, immersing ourselves in it by deferring its gratification.... ---From "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Lovers:
BUDDHA-ED POPCORN? Re: Is Buddhism All It's Cracked Up to Be? RESPONSE 1: How should I know? Am I my Buddha's keeper? RESPONSE 2: Not at all... On hot days it makes a dreadful mess. So I always keep *my* Buddha in the fridge. Even though some people say it is bad for me, I much prefer it to margarine! RESPONSE 3: I actually ALSO keep my Buddha in the refrigerator. Mine however, is a magnificently sculpted 1/4-inch miniature statuette of the great teacher. I call it my Peanut Buddha! ---From an exchange discovered
THE DEFENSE TAKES A BREATHER "ONE WEEK FROM TODAY I'll be arguing my first opening motion in a courtroom," says one student on the retreat's last afternoon. "I'm going to root my feet to the floor and listen to my breath. I think what we've done here will help me speak and help better serve my client..." ---From a January 4, 1998 Washington Post article by Emily Bazelon, about the impact of a vipassana meditation retreat for 20 Yale Law school students, led by Joseph Goldstein at the Center for Contemplative Mind Society in Massachusetts
A BUG'S LIFE "LEWIS SPOKE THROUGH a teary-eyed yawn. 'Pilot, come right three degrees. Hold. Bomber doors open. Check. Sixty seconds to drop. Bombs away.' But the mean and cutting fun had gone out of it for Chuckie. He didn't want to kill any more VC. And he was developing a curious concern for the local landscape. Tired of killing the forest, the trees of the forest, the birds that inhabit the trees, the insects that live their whole karmic lives nestled in the wing feathers of the birds..." ---From the novel "Underworld" by Don Delillo
HELLO, DOLLY "LLAMA TREKKING IN CANAAN VALLEY in and about Dolly Sods, West Virginia. Day trips including lunch & guided overnight trips including meals into the Monongahela Forest. Reservations required. (304) 866-4359. Dolly Llama Trekking Co." ---From a Publicity Flyer (Compiled by Douglas Imbrogno)
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"THE 13TH DALAI LAMA left me many things. One very important thing was a projector that ran manually... The whole responsibility of doing the repair work landed on my shoulders. So I developed an interest in that movie projector and electricity. Generally, I like movies. But the types of films I like are mainly documentaries---about animals and nature. What you call feature films, well, I am not much interested in them because I know they are artificial---just acting. But one thing I liked was the late Kojak. He looked just like a monk! On the few occasions I saw him, I thought, "Oh! Very beautiful, very beautiful!"
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