Cion, This is a truly marvellous thing !! It's a card which only works when you rack up the Good Karma points by buying other people things, and paying for their bills, obviously!!!
Does the bill also come with the Om symbol on it so you can return to a feeling of calm after realizing how much Crap buddha helped you buy? yeah, I don't get it either.
Wow. That kind of made my day, in a wee little "gosh, I love my country sometimes" way.
It's becoming more and more annoying to realize how much our culture just kind of skims (or loots) from others. But just the bits they want... that are marketable... that look nice on Visa cards, evidently. We don't appropriate concepts -- we appropriate empty images, devoid of their original ideological heft. It's saddening.
I have a whole seven-page rant about just that, but I'll reduce it to one illustration.
The last time I went to a spa for a manicure and pedicure, it was all Zen Buddha. I know it was Zen because everything was so consciously ZEN!!, instead of just being simple. Buddha statues everywhere. Water features. Incense. Expensive yoga outfits for sale. Expensive cosmetics to ZEN!ify your beauty routine.
Now, I don't know a lot about Buddhism, but I'm confident that a mani-pedi with paraffin wrap is not an important part of the teachings.
Yes! Exactly! We seem to be really good at taking concepts/ideas/tenets and making them into STUFF. Something can't just be Zen, because it is peaceful, serene, or clean. We need stuff, with big neon arrows (or "Asian inspired" fonts) telling us that it is so. That's what gets me -- the packaging of things which, by definition, are un-containable.
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This is a truly marvellous thing !! It's a card which only works when you rack up the Good Karma points by buying other people things, and paying for their bills, obviously!!!
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yeah, I don't get it either.
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It's becoming more and more annoying to realize how much our culture just kind of skims (or loots) from others. But just the bits they want... that are marketable... that look nice on Visa cards, evidently. We don't appropriate concepts -- we appropriate empty images, devoid of their original ideological heft. It's saddening.
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The last time I went to a spa for a manicure and pedicure, it was all Zen Buddha. I know it was Zen because everything was so consciously ZEN!!, instead of just being simple. Buddha statues everywhere. Water features. Incense. Expensive yoga outfits for sale. Expensive cosmetics to ZEN!ify your beauty routine.
Now, I don't know a lot about Buddhism, but I'm confident that a mani-pedi with paraffin wrap is not an important part of the teachings.
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No, sorry, my brain just broke with that one.
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If only it were a joke.
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And don't even THINK of doing yoga in your cheap ol' sweats.
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