Thank you Marsha! I enjoyed writing it too. Dan
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:50 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Dan, > > Of all the stories I've ever read, and of all the words on philosophy (ZMM & > LILA excluded of course) I've tried to decipher, and of all the books > explaining Buddhism I've ever tried to interpret, your story of the > misspelled sign is my all-time favorite. It still comes to mind and makes me > laugh. Laugh at myself of course. Probably not often enough. It is a > gem!!! Puts everything into perspective. I'm laughing now at just the > thought of it... > > For those of you who missed it: > > ------(cut - paste)------- > > > From: Dan Glover <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 02:01:51 -0500 > Subject: Re: [MD] (no subject) > > > > Driving down the road one day, in a hurry as usual, I caught sight of a sign > just as I passed it. Curious, I made a u-turn and went back. The sign said: > Buddist Temple and just below that was a little hand-painted note that said: > All Are Welcome. So I drove into the compound. I parked the car in the > parking lot and walked into the temple. > > Your sign is misspelled, I told the young man at the counter. He laughed a > loud belly laugh. I thought maybe he hadn't understood me. I explained that > there should be an "h" in Buddhist. He laughed again, this time falling to > the floor and rolling around as he grabbed his sides with his hands as if his > ribs hurt from laughing so hard. > > About this time an older man appeared from behind some curtains, apparently > drawn by the laughter. Thinking that the older man was in charge, I > approached him. He wore a long orange robe and he looked quite regal from a > distance but as he got closer I could see many tattered rips in his robe that > had been carefully repaired and I could see his nose hair needed trimming. > The man looked very old. > > Hey mister, I said, I thought you should know that your sign out on the road > is misspelled. It should read B-U-D-D-H-I-S-T, not Buddist. He looked at me a > long time without saying a word. I thought perhaps he didn't speak English. I > looked over my shoulder for the younger man who could perhaps translate for > me but he had disappeared. > > When I looked back towards the old man, he had turned around and was walking > back through the curtain from where he'd first appeared. He waved a hand over > his shoulder as if motioning me to follow. So I did. We walked down a long > hallway, made a turn to the left, and then a turn to the right, and emerged > outside close to where I parked. The old man motioned me to get in my car, so > I did. Then he waved goodbye. So I drove off. > > On my way out of the compound, I stopped, pulled down the Buddist Temple > sign, and threw it in the weeds that grew by the road. > > > > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
