Buddhist students get rowdy

[Strong Atheist]

Well, not really. About as rowdy as Buddhists ever get, I guess...

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About 200 Buddhist students held a rally outside an outlet of the international franchise Buddha Bar in the Indonesian capital on Thursday, accusing it of defaming their religion

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKTRE5241R620090305

[tekisui]

1. Welcome to the Buddha Bar:

I knew taking this shot would be useful.

[FSogol]

3. A guy walks into, Buddha's bar and says, "Hey barkeep, make me one with everything."

;-)

[Strong Atheist]

5. Whoo!

REALLY Lol!

:rofl:

:yourock:

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. And the barkeep replied

"You already are. That will be $5." :toast:

[Strong Atheist]

7. Lol!

:toast:

[conscious evolution]

11. The guy gives the bartender

$10.00 and says keep your change.

[Occam Bandage]

14. The bartender says, "change comes from within."

[Warpy]

2. Students, not monks. The distinction is an important one

Remember when the giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan were destroyed by the Taliban? There was an outcry around the world against such cultural vandalism. The one place that was silent was the totality of Buddhist monasteries.

Buddhism isn't in the statues or the name or even the philosophy. It's in the daily practice. Buddha himself said not to believe a word he said but to check it all out for ourselves through practice.

Some people will always mistake symbols for the thing they represent, though, especially the young and inexperienced. Most will outgrow it.

The rest will vote Republican.

[Strong Atheist]

4. "The rest will vote Republican"

:rofl:
:toast:

[Strong Atheist]

8. BTW, if you are a Buddhist, you might like

Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny (sci-fi).

[tanngrisnir3]

18. Fantastic novel. Utterly unique in imaginative fiction, to my experience.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Very well said!

Thank you!.

[Strong Atheist]

10. See post #8. nt.

[conscious evolution]

12. At my house

we have literally hundreds of buddha,guanyin and other statues.
Several of us are constantly decorating them.It never fails that someone takes offense at what we do.We figure if the statues didn't like it they would tell us.

[Warpy]

13. ROFL! Exactly!

They're THINGS.

Buddhism is the practice.

[TechBear_Seattle]

15. A most enlightened attitude

:hi:

[hendo]

17. I believe the quote you are looking for is.

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

[anonymous171]

16. Crazed religionists. nt