12 REASONS WHY OBAMA SHOULD BECOME A BUDDHIST

12 REASONS WHY OBAMA SHOULD BECOME A BUDDHIST

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Tonight I was a guest on The Colbert Report tv show on Comedy Central channel, and Stephen Colbert asked me why Obama should become a Buddhist now that he’s left his church. (View the July 14 show with Lama Surya Das.)

There are actually TWELVE OFFICIAL REASONS WHY OBAMA SHOULD BECOME A BUDDHIST
12. Buddhists have more fun.

11. It’d be great to have a president for once who practiced right speech, right actions, right intentions and right livelihood, as Buddha taught.

10. I’d call him Head Lama Obama.

9. All the best people are. My religion is the best and the only way, just like yours.

8. Buddha has for 2500 years taught change and inclusivity.

7. Buddhist meditation and mindfulness training is good for both physical and mental health.

6. Buddha was the world’s first ecological leader and protector of animals as well as human beings.
(Obama could rename 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue “The Green House”)

5. Nonviolence and altruism is the Buddhist way. War might be outlawed.

4. Buddhist practices of mindful anger management and nonviolent conflict resolution could make him an enlightened leader, like Aung San Su Kyii of Burma and the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
(Pres. Medvedev of Russia does yoga.)

3. I am a Buddha, and so can you.

2. It would help the energy crisis.

AND FINALLY, LAST BUT NOT LEAST,
My Father’s favorite answer to all of life’s big questions:

1. BECAUSE…

source: http://surya.org/wp/?tag=barack-obama

no comment

About Lama Surya Das

Surya lived for fifteen years in the Himalayas, studied and practiced meditation and yoga under the great enlightened masters of Tibet and India. He was a Buddhist monk and has twice completed the traditional three year, three month Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat and lama training at his teacher’s monastery cloister. He is the author of many top-selling books and had published numerous articles in various publications. Surya is a featured columnist in Beliefnet, the Internet’s number one site for religion. He is the Founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network and introduced its week-long conferences with the Dalai Lama.

For more information and his teaching schedule, visit Surya.org
Dzogchen.org