Word: gautama
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...adult journey and find some time to feel grateful to both my parents for teaching me the tools to find happiness through it all. In other words, I feel remarkably well adjusted for having been the product of Chopra's idealized "warm bubble bath of self." GAUTAMA CHOPRA New York City
...worst, the creature's sting produces mutants: witness the work of David Gilhooly, 38. Gilhooly does pottery frogs; rafts of them, dressed up as Mao Tse Toad, posing as the Gautama Buddha or smothering-deep social commentary, this-beneath piles of super market produce. This kind of sensibility, which surfaces in the weaker patches of Arneson's work as well, is meant to be disarmingly ironical...
Scholars in Thailand disagree. They are sanguine about Buddhism's long-range prospects in Indochina, since they feel the Gautama's ideas are not incompatible with Communism. Observes Thai Scholar Sulak Sivaraksa: "Christianity and Communism have a lot of ideological conflicts, but this is not the case with traditional Buddhism, which is socialistic in that it champions the equality...
...Hindu imports spin on and on in the catalogue of current U.S. spiritual movements. So, too, do the offshoots of Buddhism, which began in India as a reform movement within Hinduism in the 6th century B.C. Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One who founded the Buddhist family of religions, de-emphasized the Hindu gods; some schools of Buddhism-Zen, for instance-still reflect a kind of agnosticism. But the basic spiritual focus in the many forms of Buddhism is the attainment of nirvana, an ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated, and compassion...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It is a more serious and successful attempt to proselytize the antic way of freaky esthetics. It may even be considered the New Testament of hip mythology: Wolfe implies a likeness between Kesey and various religious figures-including Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. In 1964, Kesey forsook the literary world, having already established an LSD cult in La Honda, Calif. Wolfe records the events, carefully drawing religious parallels...