[Buddha-l] Re: Pennsylvania and crying Buddhas

[Jamie Hubbard]

Benito Carral wrote:

> I don't know many buddhas who are comedians. Well, now that I mention 
> it, I don't know many buddhas.

So, I take it that you know some Buddhas--how many Buddhas do you know? 
Care to give up their names? And how do you know them when you see/meet 
them? IOW, what are the characteristics of a Buddha that you work with 
in order to recognize them?

BTW, I am entirely serious about this-- I am offering a seminar on 
"Buddhahood 101" next semester, and the question of just what 
constitutes Buddhahood is the entire topic, all of which is somewhat in 
service of answering the question of whether or not anybody is a Buddha 
these days. I ask this to just about everybody, and Bhante Gunaratana 
answered just the other day that he hasn't met any Buddhas, then quickly 
qualified himself to say that he has met some that he considers arhats. 
. . unfortunately, there wasn't time to find out what he meant, much 
less who these folks were.

I am not myself sure of my own answer-- I certainly have never met any 
Buddhas as described, for example, by John Mackransky in his "Buddhahood 
Embodied." I guess I first need to decide what I think a Buddha 
is--hence the seminar :) . . .

In any case, yours and others comments would be great!

Jamie