Word: buddha
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...change. Nothing could be further from the Buddhist view of compassion and happiness. In a famous Buddhist story, a young woman wanders the streets of a town with her dead infant in her arms, asking everyone she meets to bring him back to life. Someone directs her to the Buddha, who listens patiently and then promises to help if she brings him a mustard seed from a household that has never witnessed a death. The young woman knocks on many doors. By the time she returns empty-handed to the Buddha, she has begun to grasp his lesson: all things...
...Buddha brought consolation to many people as he traveled around North India in the 6th century B.C. This was a time when the old tribal societies were cracking up, a new urban civilization was emerging, along with fast-expanding human desires, and rulers dreaming of empire were waging destructive wars. The Buddha was one of the many new agnostic thinkers in North India who responded to the suffering of people uprooted from their tradition-bound worlds. But he didn't diagnose this suffering in sociological abstractions, as a consequence of social and economic injustice, widening racial or class gaps...
...witnessed the emergence of the new rootless, ego-driven individual as it broke free from old close-knit societies and became afflicted with craving, pride, jealousy and hatred while acting upon its newly expanded world. But unlike such modern thinkers as Hobbes and Marx, the Buddha didn't assume that a model of society was needed that could contain the rampaging egos of human beings. He proposed none of the massive restructurings of society familiar to us in our own times: revolution, socialism, democracy, capitalism or regime change. He insisted that suffering is a mental experience, born from desire, attachment...
...acquisition of things and people. Today, it is what recommends Buddhism to so many people living in societies built around the endless stimulation and satisfaction of individual desires, but which seem to bewilder and oppress people as much as or more than the simpler world to which the Buddha offered his unique therapy...
Many Pudding members of the HPT’s class of 1951 heeded Lawrence’s advice and went into the theater. Owsley, who played Dr. Mendoza in the cast of Buddha Knows Best, described the Hasty Pudding as a “great preamble” for the careers of several members of the cast. Fred H. Gwynne ’51, a three-year HPT cast member and the President of The Harvard Lampoon, went on to become Herman Munster in the popular eponymous television program. David A. Hays ’52, who designed the sets...