[Buddha-l] Obituary: The Age of Aquarius

[curt]

Unlike your typical Mahayanist, for whom the concept of
helping others is purely a theoretical construct, Che dedicated
his life to actually helping other actual human beings. This, it
turns out, is much messier and far more ambiguous (to put it
nicely) than just reciting the "four vows".

We were talking earlier about the "contagion" of niceness:
"spreading" niceness, as opposed to simply being nice. Che
has inspired millions of people to devote themselves to the
cause of helping others. While much of the world fools itself
into thinking that Globalization is a done deal and its nothing
but "free-markets" from here on out - the "children of Che"
in Latin American are creating a different reality. We'll see
whose reality turns out to be "more real". It turns out that
many Latin American revolutionaries are Zen Buddhists,
but they are followers of the Korean Zen Master Sosan
Taesa, as opposed to those more "pacifistic" (ha!) Zen
Masters from Japan.

- Curt

Mike Austin wrote:

> In message <1120058350.5423.27.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Richard 
> P. Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> writes
>
>> And then I'm going to light
>> two sticks of incense on my Buddhist altar, one in front of Amitabha and
>> the other in front of the picture of Che Guevara.
>
>
> ... maybe better to offer one to Che Nrezig.
>