BEER Ch. 4 The News from Afghanistan

[Dave Monroe]

   "For a couple of weeks now, Maxine has been showing up for sessions
to find her youthful guru increasingly bent out of shape by the news
from Afghanistan." (BE, Ch. 4, pp. 30-1)


"news from Afghanistan"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/afghanistan/


"two colossal statues of the Buddha"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban


"'"Fuckin rugriders,'"

derogatory term for a person of Middle Eastern/East Indian descent.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rug%20rider


"'it's OK to kill him'"

    If you meet the Buddha, kill him. (逢佛殺佛，逢祖殺祖)
    —Linji

Thinking about the Buddha as an entity or deity is delusion, not
awakening. One must destroy the preconception of the Buddha as
separate and external before one can become internally as their own
Buddha. Zen master Shunryu Suzuki wrote in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
during an introduction to Zazen,

    Kill the Buddha if the Buddha exists somewhere else. Kill the
Buddha, because you should resume your own Buddha nature.

One is only able to see a Buddha as he exists in separation from
Buddha, the mind of the practitioner is thus still holding onto
apparent duality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan#Killing_the_Buddha


Wahhabists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabists


"'I slam'"

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Islam


TAG Heuer

http://www.tagheuer.com/
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