The Buddha had 40 magnificent teeth, straight and white, partly because he was born in the East, partly because they are part of the major Marks of a Great Man (KanikaBadwal). |
Novices, Ladakh, Buddhist India (Sayid Budi) |
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The Buddha had 40 magnificent teeth, straight and white, partly because he was born in the East, partly because they are part of the major Marks of a Great Man (KanikaBadwal). |
Novices, Ladakh, Buddhist India (Sayid Budi) |
Famous Budai, the fat happy smiling Mahayana monk or "Buddha" (shutterstock.com) |
"I thought cavs and crooked teeth was normal!" |
"Ah, no more vivisection on us!" (funnycats4u) |
(READ: Hidden History of Human Race) |
Dalai O'Lama (elephantjournal.com) |
"Non Sequitur" by Wiley Miller (gocomics.com) |
For the most part, laity in immigrant Buddhism, like laity in Asia, don't engage in meditation -- a practice for the ascetic monks who are imitating the Buddha's lifestyle of renunciation. They don't expect to become enlightened beings like the Buddha.Yet it seems a lot of "American Buddhists" are obsessed with meditation. I think some feel that meditation is a bit like prayer in Christianity. The perception being, if you aren't meditating daily then you are somehow "failing" as a Buddhist. The truth, of course, is that expecting to meditate daily like the monks is like expecting yourself to run a marathon without the time, body and training that regular runners can afford to give to their fitness. Monks have the luxury of not having a job and living in an environment where all worldly burdens are stripped, enabling the kind of focus and dedication needed to maintain a steady, meditation regime.