Is Bush the Anti-Buddha?

[alapolitical]

"When George W. Bush mouths the word "compassion" chills dart up my spine. Anyone paying attention can easily see how the actions of the Bush regime reflect a distinct lack of empathy and understanding. This is an administration bent on blatant paybacks to friends and contributors at everyone else's expense.

Its single truth: What is good for extractive profits is good for the country. Trees and caribou don't contribute cash so Bush's environmental policy opens majestic old growth forests for commercial logging and protected wilderness areas for domestic oil exploration. His foreign policy confuses justice with punishment, disagreement with treachery, and cultural differences with evil. He willingly risks escalating and perpetuating a continuous cycle of global violence."

http://www.buddhistnews.tv/current/bush-180504.php

[ZenLefty]

1. bush has one Buddhist trait:

He has achieved emptiness of mind. :o

[cybildisobedience]

2. love this line from the article,

which would make a great bumper-sticker, by the way:

Bus is an anti-Buddha: a global poster-boy for profound ignorance.

[scarletwoman]

3. Thank you very much for posting this!

That was a wonderful read, and very helpful. As a Buddhist, I have often found it extremely difficult in these times to cultivate positive energy.

The closing paragraphs of this piece are priceless:

Now my visualizations are of bearing witness to a panoply of devas and gods, the Boddhisatva Avalokitesvara, and countless rows of Buddha's and Bodhisattvas throughout space and time sitting in the clouds and celebrating Bush's retirement from the Oval Office and his safe return to Crawford, Texas.

Then I close with two healing mantras in rapid succession: "May all beings be happy and free from suffering – even Bush" "May all beings be happy – and freed from Bush."

Most excellent!

sw

[fryguy]

4. great article, thanks for posting

[indigobusiness]

5. Possibly the Anti-Buddha, the Anti-Mohammed, and the Anti- Christ

but that is giving him alot of credit.