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To: James Seagrove who wrote (141159)	5/3/2018 1:19:40 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 218018

I've found the Bodhi tree philosophy is most attractive to short-tempered individuals who are never able to incorporate any of these ideals in their life. It's like thirsty people buying books with extensive and florid descriptions of water and how delicious and refreshing an Indian Prince long ago once found water to be. For some reason the thirsty people never get to drink and reading the books about water seem to only make things far worse for them. The prince believed his thoughts on the matter evolved over time, but I suspect he had a sense of this understanding for a long period of time. Outside of Buddhist majority nations I've found few people with the sort of self-control Buddhist's aspire to find the teachings about something which comes naturally as very profound. We have a Buddha devotee at our ceramic studio. He perversely likes to ride his bike on busy streets in Los Angeles and likes to assert his "right of way" getting into frequent arguments with motorists as you'd expect from a devotee of the Buddha. Last week he was hit by a truck and broke his femur which now has a pin in it. Having learned nothing from the experience, he can't wait to buy a new bicycle to replace the twisted wreck. No amount of contemplation or chanting is going to fix him.