Published by Swiss James on 21 Feb 2008 at 12:57 pm
Buddhism, Rules
People try to tell you that Buddhism is a very cool and laid back religion. A bunch of guys in colourful robes sitting around thinking about whether toast can ever be truly bread again.
Not true.
I once spent a night in a temple, and those monks were on my back like the bad tempered Chief of Police in a Mel Gibson movie
- “You can’t sit there”
- “We wake up at 4am for prayers”
- “You must eat all of the food in your bowl”
- “Stop trying to melt that gold statue with a cigarette lighter”
That was in Korea but the same goes here, look at this list of rules posted outside XiaHai temple:
No peddling paper money for the nether world or divining fortune by the Eight Diagrams? Screw that.
Stick to Islam I reckon, those guys know how to party.
Too bloody right. No flammables or explosives? Sod that. With Islam you score extra points for blowing stuff up. And it’s pretty cheeky if not accurate to label fortune telling as a suspicious activity!
I love superstitious activities! That’s why I go to Hong Kong for my buhddist needs. Fortune telling from birds, face reading, and shaking out bamboo sticks!
Obviously I need spelling help, most of all.
I’ll keep my money swindling activities to the local church then
Nah. Is it from some tv show? I’m lucky if I get fluttering eyelids from some dame on the street once a year let alone a horn from a rabbit.
to be fare though, all that meditation has left their grasp of the grammatical nuances of the english language far beyind that of the common t’all garden chineselish chap on the street. no ridicululous translations of ancient chinese proverbs here. maybe they have meditated on to the higher interweb plane and hooked up their brains memory cortex to an online translator.
Who knows?
Do you?
on an unrelated note mr swiss, are you back for easter? if so, are you in big old blighty on 5th april? if so do you fancy coming round for Frankies birthday?
Whats your address in chinengland?
Speaking of eight diagrams… Wu Tang Clan… I like the new album, James.
Oh really? How would you liked it if your place/home/church was a tourist trap?
Hahaha- all of the churches I know of are open to the public, and a lot of the big Cathedrals alread are tourist traps. The point of the sign seems to be:
“If you’re going to burn incense and do weird superstitious rituals, you have to use our incense and weird superstitious rituals”
TWG- I picked it up in Hong Kong but haven’t really listened to it yet, sounded good the first time I played it though
Bozzle- June at the earliest mate, so no go for Frankie’s big do (4th is it? I’m confused now) I’m afraid. Please send the cake to
James Creegan
Room 1102,
500 HaiTianWu Road
PuDong International Airport Working Area
Shanghai,
China
corky- it’s from the book of course!
missbels- raffle tickets and tombolas only please
T- I had my fortune told with that shaking sticks thing once- he said I was like a pearl waiting to be uncovered or some such nonsense.
WoAi- plus they have better kebabs
Unpredictable is my favorite track of 8 diagrams
James - And you can have 4 wives, but the kebabs thing already sold it for me!
Mmmmm, kebabs.