as many of us seem to have noticed, there is a new buoyancy and optimism in kalisurfers posts since his having audience with the dalai lama. does his consciousness now reside amongst the immortal or is this a shoe for vincent?

More like a butter knife for dissecting or at least a spoon for cutting off an ear.

interesting how you see yourself as a shoeless joe jackson with black sox in a field of dreams

i will give voters that option if that is how they also see you

looks like we have a neck to neck race between shoeless joe jackson and buddha. buddha was also shoeless wasn't he?

Bare souls not feet...or is this another bare trap?

Sorry Babu, but it looks like no one wants to touch this saintly subject with a 10, 20 50, or 1000 ft pole, even with that invisible infinite cyber foot pole that is available to anyone.

I think that my quest for stupidhood ( () ) could be a much more quickly attained, even though it is against forum rules, than buddhahood...at least in my part of the shoeless hood.

Thanks for trying though!

current poll results do seem to suggest that you are indeed buddha hoodless. shoeless joe did have a reputation for gambling and running with the hoods as you seem to be so cut from the same cloth

It would have helped perhaps if the survey was worded in such a way that non-USA residents (also known as 'aliens') could also understand the question. I have never heard of "shoe for vincent" or "shoeless joe jackson".

But would one need a survey if someone had really achieved Buddhahood,
and would he be interested in the results,
and isn't this survey taking "democracy" just a little too far?

JFYI & JFTR & BTW

I voted for Buddhahood in this matter. It was obvious and no doubt sought recognition.

Shoeless Joe Jackson was the American version of Scottish soccer player Willie Johnston, who was sent home from Scotland’s bid for the world cup in 1978 for failing a drug test and was then banned for life from playing soccor. Most likely no one in the USA knows or ever heard of Willie Johnston. Ole Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned for life from baseball for a gambling scandal with the Chicago Black Sox, though he was personally acquitted of all charged in a court a year after the scandal, his stats and records to this day have been blacked out of baseball history.

Kind of like being banned and excommunicated from ISKCON for eating a mushroom and visiting another non-ISKCON guru, or reading a sex novel that is not really a sex novel by a Sannyasi who is not always present in his body, or perhaps for not wanting to agree with the standard institutional sentiment that all non-devotees are karmi’s whose lives are no better than hogs and dogs and have to saved by saying out loud one particular name of God or eating a sugar cookie that was baked by someone who offered it to the same named God first, which will guarantee these fallen souls a human birth in their next life, so they can at least try to find a temple and wash some pots for the lord and give their hard earned money to a silken clad leader so he can make his yearly trip to Mayapura and conceive of a new plan to oust those who do not believe properly, while planning new methodologies to milk the transplanted Indian population’s pocket books to pay for large temples that house 5 extremely overworked devotees whose visa’s are soon to expire.

Or something like that…as Buddha left the hood many years before others came along looking for some type of recognition or at least an easy lively-hood.

Thanks ePiTau, but I lost my aura to dora a long-long time ago and my halo was pawned to pay my karmic debts to a spiritual master who left his mind somewhere the body is not presently, so I am appreciative of the vote though the recognition will not reflect in mirrors and my incognito ways seem to slip between the cracks of all things deemed obvious!

I fear I am forever cursed to carry the banned baseball glove of shoeless joe to catch the hell being thrown at me by the worldwide caravan of true believers and flippant flowmasters, as I thumb my ride aboard the excommunication express to Bannedsville.

Blessed are those who lost aura and halo!
The master said "KC is not something cheap!"
So he attracted a handful willing to pay.
They are still paying . . .

Yes, ePiTau, it does seem to be a purchase that never seems to pay itself off.

I can remember fellow devotees scoffing and laughing at people who were naïve enough to pay 35 dollars for a mantra to meditate when ours was free! Did not cost a penny yet we still pay with tortured memories….what a bargain!