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- From: rice@mirage.rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice)
- Newsgroups: news.answers,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy
- Subject: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy Frequently Asked Questions List
- Summary: Starring a prominent religious figure who really is, plus EL DUPREE
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- This is the Frequently Asked Questions list for alt.buddha.short.fat.guy.
- It is posted infrequently enough to be frustrating but often enough to
- be annoying. Relax. Have a cigar.
-
-
- Contents: 1. Getting Started
- 2. The Buddha
- 3. Buddha Nature
- 4. El Dupree
-
- Send questions for inclusion in this list to Brian Rice <rice@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- or Lindsey Durway <durway@dg-rtp.dg.com>.
-
- ************
- Part 1. Getting Started
- ************
-
- 1-1. Does this newsgroup have a FAQ list?
-
- Yes.
-
- 1-2. How can I get it?
-
- Apparently, you don't.
-
- 1-3. Does this newsgroup have a purpose?
-
- Yes.
-
- 1-4. Which is?
-
- See question 1-2.
-
- 1-5. Is this an actual newsgroup, or is my system being toyed with?
-
- Yes and yes.
-
- ************
- Part 2. The Buddha
- ************
-
- 2-1. Who was the Buddha?
-
- The Buddha, originally called Gautama, was a young Brahmin of
- comfortable means who became disillusioned with his bourgeois
- existence and set out to find himself. He adopted an austere
- way of life, even abandoning his Doors tapes--certainly not
- standard procedure for those on similar quests. Eventually,
- he achieved enlightenment, whereupon he became known as "The
- Buddha," "The Enlightened One," or, to his friends, "Budd Light."
-
- 2-2. Isn't it silly having so many names for one person?
-
- I'm sorry. I can't argue unless you've paid.
-
- 2-3. Wait, what about the "Buddah"?
-
- He spends his time hanging out with Ghandi in New Dheli. Munching
- on gerkhins, no doubt.
-
- 2-4. Is the purpose of this newsgroup to insult the Buddha? |
- |
- No. However, since the last thing the Buddha wanted was |
- veneration, perhaps we are insulting him by not insulting |
- him. You have deeply troubled us. |
-
- ************
- Part 3. Buddha Nature
- ************
-
- 3-1. What is Buddha nature?
-
- As that prominent Buddhist, Louis Armstrong, said: "If you have
- to ask, you'll never know."
-
- 3-2. Does "X" have Buddha nature?
-
- "X" does, but you don't. Exception: if "X" is Ronald Reagan,
- he doesn't and you do.
-
- 3-3. Could you repeat that?
-
- Yes.
-
- ************
- Part 4. El Dupree
- ************
-
- 4-1. Does El Dupree have the Buddha Nature?
-
- Yes.
-
- 4-2. Does Buddha have the El Dupree Nature?
-
- Often.
-
- 4-3. Who is El Dupree?
-
- He is the Ghost of the Western Plain, an unbathed drifter of
- much notoriety, who gave us the game CamChata, "Devil Fingers."
-
- 4-4. Huh?
-
- What he said.
-
- 4-5. Are there koans in the tradition of El Dupree?
-
- There were several developed in the 50's, but there are only
- re-runs now.
-
- 4-6. Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
-
- Get serious. I've changed a lot since then.
-
- 4-7. Tell me a koan.
-
- Read on:
-
- El Dupree came upon an injured cur on the road to Mejave Mai.
- "Rise cur," El Dupree said, casually pushing up the brim of his
- big spangled sombrero. He sucked air through his teeth and waited.
- The cur glanced sidelong at the colorful stranger and hissed,
- "Yeah, riiiight. A fucking miracle worker? A talking hat? Funny
- man from downtown?"
-
- El Dupree reached for his revolver, hesitated, and instead, took out
- a #14 vinyl headsack. Yes, it was going to be a long day, he thought.
-
- And the dog was enlightened.
-
- 4-8. Do I have time for another koan?
-
- You have 15 minutes before the last bus leaves. Read on:
-
- Pepito could just see daylight through the seams of the #14 vinyl
- headsack. He found that if he cocked his head slightly to one
- side, he could glimpse, through the splitting seam of the headsack
- (the aging headsack, the headsack that smelled of masa harina and
- hair oil, the hated headsack of enforced ignorance), one crusty
- corner of El Dupree's mouth. El Dupree licked his lips, his tongue
- the color of well-cured meerschaum, and muttered, "Yust you vate."
-
- Pepito was enlightened.
-
- 4-9. What's CamChata?
-
- Read on:
-
- The big-hatted lone figure on the horizon went unnoticed by the
- sleeping man curled next to the pile of blackened chicken bones.
- Faint dust devils rose behind the approaching stranger's horse and
- the morning sun let play its light on the little dangling balls on
- the brim of El Dupree's impressive sombrero. Yes, men had made fun
- of the proud sombrero, but those men were dead, El Dupree thought
- to himself as he spurred toward the sleeping man he would soon
- awaken and challenge to the deadliest of all games, the game that
- had made its way from Tierra del Fuego, across Chile, and into the
- heart of Mexico: CamChata! Devil Fingers!!
-
- 4-10. Does CamChata hurt?
-
- Oh, baby, does it ever. Read on:
-
- I rebel.
- Grandfather.
- Embrace me.
- I rebel.
- Yarn on the left, stones in groups of three and one, the
- lizard bleeding from my fingernails.
- I rebel.
-
- 4-11. Is there more poetry inspired by El Dupree?
-
- Yes.
-
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