h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm (hopefully ) going to face a crisis of conscience, as I'm a Tibetan Buddhist and ( the hopefully) going to teach English in China.
The standard contract forbids me from promotimg the cause of Taiwan, ( no problems there) or Tibet(oops). I'm wondering if I can even expect to be allowed to practice my religion in Buddhist temples ( our form of obeisance to Buddha is a little distinctive), when I 'm hoping to find a post south of Shanghai.
And apparently you can't get the BBC website in China!

Good luck Beanfoto

I would have a crisis of conscience about going to China as well. I'm training to be a Buddhist in the FWBO.

I am presently reading Tibetan Buddhism by Sagharakshita, he says there are 4 schools within Tibetan Buddhism: Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and the Gelug. Would you agree with this? If so which school are you in? Also, which country are you from/in (very nosy, please don't answer if you don't want to)

Shame you can't get to h2g2 whilst in China.

Yes read, and was very confused , by him myself.
Me? I have enough difficulty sorting out if I'm a yellow hat, or a red hat sect.
The minutiae of Buddhism, considering it covers all areas from bald men with sticks wacking you awake at 4 in the morning to sects chanting for whatever they want in this world,( couldn't find chapter and verse for that one myself), seems less important than the 5 precepts and the 8 noble truths, ( and I have to take my socks off to count them)
I came across the Western Buddhist Order in Leeds. It struck me that they have some pretty embroidery on their robes.
Myself I try to follow as simple as possible Way, but one which has great expect for animism, ( am I more Bon than Buddhist?)and A fascination for the Tantra.
Just to stress the exotic nature of the Tibetan Buddhist diaspora, I'm from Leeds!

A Tibetan Buddhist from Leeds - cool!

Westerners have a very strange view of the tantra, have you experienced that? All those books on tantric sex!! So much for the Diamond Way!

Do you want to reach enlightenment in one lifetime? I thought that was the main reason for choosing the Vajrana (is that spelled right?), or is there other reasons to choose it?

If one aims for Enlightenment, one is halfway to ensuring you DON'T achieve it this time round. ( I'd like to remember a good few more lifetimes first.)
Don't think thats the way it's spelt, but mine is no better.
Tantric sex is a Western obsession but one where most fall at the first hurdle, I'm more interested in its Cosmic aspects, and how ( literally) it keeps the world turning.

I seem to be able to see the Forbidden City from just outside my window. So I guess you can get h2g2 here.

I'm not going to push things though...

I guess we're less threatening than Google...





Dream Police!

No' that's the porn. Have found a sex shop, and a massage parlour here in Nanning. Didn't go in either.
Title subject of this thread best avoided here....

That's Chan(g?) here man.....

Kong Fyu Shuz say: Close enough for jazz!

Hey man I don't dig jazz y'know?

You old L7, you!

L7, L7? Dunno man.
Aging hippy, for sure!

L7's old school for 'square'....
Aging hippy, huh?
I was in Austin and Santa Cruz.
Was you there, man?

No man but saw the Stones in Hyde Park and just missed Hendrix at the Isle of Wight,( bummer).
I was also at the 2nd Grosvenor Square demo...
Woodstock?
I saw the movie 15 times, ( more than Easy Rider).
Hip enough for you man?

Haha!
Sure.
Stones...Hyde Park... not the Brian Jones memorial with the dying butterflys?

Yep, only none of the butterflies I saw died on me...

Holy swiss cheese, wasn't that the day Jagger wore a frock and King Crimson was messing around somewhere before the Stones show?

Well, A white smockie thing, dunno about King Crimson, we followed the Beatles limo in.