[Buddha-l] Making a living

[Curt Steinmetz]

In movies rich people's houses always have buddhist statues and nic nacs 
in them. Especially in old black-and-white movies. Nick and Nora Charles 
had a statue of Kwan Yin in their living room in at least one of the 
Thin Man flics. I think Aster almost knocked it over once, but Nick 
saved it (while balancing a martini in the other hand without spilling a 
drop).
Curt

David Webster wrote:
> Interesting. Here in the UK, you rarely (but not never) meet that many
> working class Buddhists - but you see a lot of Buddhist ephemera in the
> homes of the middle class. Whether it has public INFLUENCE is quite another
> matter.....
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> This has never been a problem for Buddhism in the past. Buddhism in Asia 
> has always flourished among the "middle classes" on up to the very 
> wealthy and the very powerful. I believe the oldest extant text of the 
> Record of Lin Chi has a forward written by someone who was basically a 
> warlord.
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> If anything there is a "glass ceiling" for the Buddhist upper crust in 
> the West. We have actors and college professors and musicians - but no 
> one who has the ear of the President - that's left for the likes of 
> Billy Graham. And there is very very little in the way of financial 
> support for Buddhism in the West - at least in terms of the kind of 
> financial support that has helped Buddhism to spread in Asia.
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> Curt Steinmetz
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