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My first groupies deserted me… Here’s a note from WeLoveMonk: Hi yuttadhammo! We’re fans, as you can tell. Sorry about the kiss mark. :P We really couldn’t find clip art of a heart, so we figured a silly lip mark will communicate our admiration. (I mean, we don’t wanna kiss you on the lips [...] The following letter was printed in today’s issue of the Moorpark Acorn, without the “Dear Citizens of Moorpark,”. Instead, there is seen the heading “Buddhist Monk Says He’s Harmless”. Dear Citizens of Moorpark, I am writing to introduce myself as a new resident of your city. I am a Buddhist monk and I teach [...] Today I got sidetracked into taking part in “Life In A Day“, via YouTube. I’ve been filming since 12:01 AM and have gone through most of the following list already (the four questions are part of the requirements, not something I thought up): • 12 AM – Pre-day – thoughts, reasons, intentions • 4 [...] This Wednesday, July 7th, 5 PM, at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center, see the monk go back to jail. I’m volunteering with Religious Services at the Federal Detention Center in downtown LA. Not quite sure what I’ve gotten myself into, but thinking back over the mental anguish of imprisonment, a once-a-week chaplaincy [...] Me: “Hi, how are you today?” Customer: “I need to buy this bird.” Me: “Ok, have you ever had a bird before?” Customer: “I’ve had THIS bird before! I need to have this bird! My bird died last week and this bird tells me that he is my bird reincarnated! I need to have [...] Buddhists are all about letting go, not clinging to things, it is true. But we’re also all about understanding things, which we believe is what leads us to be able to give up clinging. If you don’t really take the time to understand something, you can’t really expect to give up clinging it. So, it shouldn’t come as a really big surprise to see the Buddhist blogverse seeming to beat this story to death. And I’m not about to give up, of course. Here’s some more in the way of understanding Tiger Woods. An interesting discussion on the Second Life VR platform: Let me tell you of the sad reality of Second Life. In case your not familiar with Second Life its a virtual world where über good looking people in tank tops and fishnet stockings run around having virtual sex, virtual lives and virtual Buddhism. In [...] Went to Chinatown looking for pocket watches today, picked up two nice gold-plated Bulova watches, should make nice monk presents. Also picked up four tenants for the night… tomorrow to free them in a lake somewhere. They came in these little tacky plastic boxes and were frantically trying to escape to something a little [...] (08:35:05 PM) Eric Hancock: “hi yes I’d like to cancel my credit card” “why? we have blah blah blah offers” “well I’m becoming a monk” (08:35:14 PM) Yuttadhammo: haha (08:35:15 PM) Eric Hancock: “is that a joke?” (08:35:16 PM) Eric Hancock: lol (08:35:24 PM) Yuttadhammol: what fun (08:35:30 PM) Eric Hancock: it is fun [...] Just got meself a skype number: +1 818 824 6654… not to be an unpaid advertisement for the sky people, but it costs my students $5 a month to get me a telephone number and unlimited calling to anywhere in North America. And now I have an excuse when people try to offer to [...] |
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