User talk:Calus

Buddhism @ WP

You mentioned you were Buddhist. I have some familiarity with various kinds of Buddhism.

• (1) WP TCM Buddhism - WP:Eventualism – You might want to read that essay, as it applies directly to the TCM article, and I started a talk page section where you can reply.

• (2) Korean Buddhism - WP:Essjayism – I do work in Korean politics, study Korean drumming (and tabla), and produce Afro/Korean drum/dance festivals in Hollywood. I met this famous Korean Buddhist who came to my home and noticed that at the front door was my professional sign that said - “World’s Greatest Braggart”, which is true as soon as I say it (true just by stating it, there's a word for that in logic and linguistics). He immediately said I need to learn some Buddhist humility. I said that he needed to learn some, and I got a big marks-a-lot and changed the sign to read “World’s Greatest Braggart Humility Teacher", which also demonstrated my adeptness at non-ownership, which leads to ...

• (3) Tibetan Buddhism - WP:Ownership – I collect art, and had an art pawn shop @ Yale, Stanford, and SF Art Institute, where I taught dance in the Diego Rivera Gallery, and film at the Cinematech. At the Asian Art Museum in SF there was the creation of a Tibetan Sand Painting by a visiting group of Tibetan Buddhist monks, and their chanters were staying in the warehouse rehearsal space of my drumming and dance band. The sand paintings are the most meticulously beautiful, and one of a kind, things I ever saw. Especially one-of-a-kind since they are all destroyed in an act to show how not to get too attached to the world through ownership. I did not carry it out (I am a wimpy coward), but I came up with an idea that if I stole it, I would not only teach a lesson not to get to attached to teaching lessons and ceremonies, which I called “meta-Buddhism”, to go with my being the world’s greatest humility teacher, and also I would own one of the most valuable one-of-a-kind paintings in the world!

• (4) Japanese Buddhism - TCM Acupuncture points, Japanese Shiatsu points and dancing with moon-walking Buddhist astronauts on LSD and the Dali Lama. – I did a nonRS edit at acupuncture point pointing out that Shiatsu points are not the same as acupoints, although Japanese acupuncture uses TCM acupoints with smaller needles. You might want to find RS for me on that and fix the article. I learned this the hard way. It was about 20 years ago, just before the SF earthquake, and I met this girl my age who was the girlfriend of a famous Japanese Buddhist monk twice her age. I had an affair with her. The monk was famous for having just walked across the US, and being a pal of the Dali Lama. I run barefoot (“Men bal” is my Korean name, where there is an actual difference between words for a barefoot scholar and a barefoot beggar, or so I am told) to the top of the mountain each morning at sunrise, and I poked fun at him for not doing the cross-country walk barefoot. I ordered him to do it over again the correct way, barefoot. I was a dancer working under a famous Japanese Ankoko Bhuto dancer. It turned out by weird coincidence that the dancer was best friends with the monk, both fleeing together to America because they took LSD with two of the later astronauts who walked on the moon at the monk’s temple, and the Japanese government found out and shut the temple down and issued arrest warrants for them. Anyway, the monk found out that I had an affair with his girlfriend, and did not tell me, but instead, offered to give me a shiatsu massage. I found out that he found out. I do not know if he knew that I knew that he knew (confusing?). So he gave me a “special” shiatsu massage, ultra-painful. But since I knew that he knew, I showed no sign of the excruciating pain. He kept pressing harder and harder at what I now call “pain points”. I just cooed as if I was in pleasure. I hear Herbxue gives a good massage.

• (5) Laughing Buddha - is the only god I worship, seriously, and I wrote the seriousness article. So I guess that makes me a Buddhist, too! :) PPdd (talk) 23:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)