Historians Discover Meditation Spread From Ancient China By Annoying Monk

[Jundo]

Might be my Ancestor ...

NEW YORK—In a groundbreaking new study published Friday in The Journal Of East Asian Studies, a team of leading historians has proved that meditation originally spread from ancient China because a single, highly annoying monk went around telling everyone how much it had changed his life.

... From the Korean peninsula to the Central Asian steppes, he is believed to have aggravated people everywhere he went, inevitably shifting every conversation to the importance of mindfulness and being centered, even when it was clear no one was interested.

http://www.theonion.com/article/hist...ent-chin-57197

Highly Annoying Gassho, J

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[Doshin]

Yep, annoying people can accomplish great things....others not so much!

Sometimes annoying, sometime loveable, Doshin

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[Mp]

Ahhh, I must be the except to the rule, haven't accomplished much, but am annoying *hehehe*.

Gassho
Shingen

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[Shugen]

Gassho,

Shugen

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[Ishin]

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[Byokan]

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[Jakuden]

Ishin, LOL!

Gassho,
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[Washin]

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[JimH]

I can almost hear it....."Fine, fine....if I meditate, THEN will you go away?"

Gassho--

--JimH (SatToday)

[Troy]

Lol, I can relate to the annoying monk. I know the article is just parody, but I was kind of like that when I first started meditating. I am sure I received a few eye rolls here and there. I will still share if it comes up in the course of conversation though.

Sat2day

[Seishin]

Well good to see that 1400 years later he's still pi$$ing folk off, given the prose in the commentary ! What a great guy, just like a dogen with a bonen (oops) grinding away. Never been much of a traveler, seen all the bits of the UK (bar NI), France and a wee bit of Switzerland and Italy (border hopping in the Alpes much to the confusion of an American tourist, another story sometime). I guess if I traveled afar this would be my epitaph. Good on ya son grind them down til they sit.

STMIZ lah