...and the Buddha, after sitting cross-legged under the Bodhi Tree for a FREAKING LONG TIME, opened his eyes and looked out upon the vast universe and realized that BECAUSE HE HAD THE COURAGE TO SIT WITH All OF IT--ALL OF WHAT HUMANS ENDURE AND EXPERIENCE---he had created PRACTICALLY enough room in his heart to hold the world entire---the sun and the moon and the sky and the stars and the grief and the joy and the confusion and the passion and the doubt and the way your seat belt sometimes gets caught when you try to lean forward and the trees and the children and the elderly and every emotion that humans, as a species, encounter and then he stood up, complained about his knees only briefly and AT LAST spoke to his devotees:
I GIVE UP. I CAN'T DO IT. I FORGOT ABOUT LEA THOMPSON.
Reporting from Lotusville,
Ernie Enlightened
4 comments:
loving your posts Amy...
Oh, he's too hard on himself - we all forgot about her after that high school football movie with Tom Cruise in the '80s.
Did she get a nose job like Jennifer Grey? Because as someone with a substantially-sized proboscis, I find that irritating. Also weird. If you got famous with your real nose, why go chop it off? I'm with Buddha.
I forgot Lea Thompson too, until this moment. How weird is that?
And my seat belt always catches me and I think it's my dad up in heaven who was constantly putting his hand in front of the passenger when he had to come to a sudden stop.
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