Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TITLE: BABY INSANE AND THE BUDDHA...
...look! there's the Buddha!" She was right, in a sense. Amid the dead and dying leaves by the roadside, a portly mini-Enlightened One, clad in sheets and made of stone, sat on a rock. But, then again, she could have been referring to the rock, or the leaves, or the ground. They're all the Buddha. At least that's what one weekend in a Zen Buddhist monastery taught...
Lamb leads an ascetic life-style, sharing a townhouse in Arlington, Virginia, with his girlfriend Holly Hassett, a lobbyist for Hershey Foods. He's in bed by 9:30 and rises around 4:45 a.m. to begin plowing through the nine newspapers he reads every day. His Buddha-like serenity gives way to anger only when he speaks of the "television tyranny" of East Coast elites. Lamb decided when he first came to Washington that he didn't want someone like Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley shaping information...
...jumped off the page and into my inner conscience. In the middle of the page was a computer-drawn picture of Buddha, floating in an utterly tranquil, vaguely Eastern-looking landscape. My soul fluttered with excitement as I gazed at the sketchily rendered mountains, caves and lakes swimming around the serenely smiling Buddha. "Enlightenment...nirvana...soul mates ...concentration and meditation," the ad guaranteed. I was sure that here, in these totally "FREE" Boston Meditation Society sessions, was the remedy to my malaise...
...Eastern one," I said slowly, the smiling computer Buddha floating through my mind. "The one with the Buddha...