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- Subject: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), 2 of 2
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- Summary: Celebrating a prominent religious figure who really is, plus EL DUPREE
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- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 12:42:29 GMT
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- Archive-name: alt-buddha-short-fat-guy/part2
-
- This is the second of two parts of the Frequently Asked Questions list
- for alt.buddha.short.fat.guy.
-
- Contents
- PART ONE:
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. The Buddha
- 3. Buddha Nature
- PART TWO:
- 4. El Dupree
- 5. Quotes from Our Readers
-
- Send questions for inclusion in this list to El_Dupree@afs.com.
-
- ******************
- Part 4. El Dupree
- ******************
-
- 4-1. Does El Dupree have Buddha Nature?
-
- Yes.
-
- 4-2. Does the Buddha have 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.
-
- *************************************** |
- Part 5. Top 9 Quotes from Our Readers |
- *************************************** |
-
- NOTE: If you try to be deep, you're not. If your quote gets included |
- here even so, rest assured we know you tried and we're laughing at |
- you. You know who you are. So do we. |
- |
- Which quotes make up the top 9 are solely determined by karma, |
- divination, sun spots, and the whim of the keeper of the FAQ. If |
- your quote is replaced, well, fame can be a dangerous thing. |
-
- 5-1. Tim Larkin, March 31, 1993
-
- "Truth and falsehood are both whatever, and simultaneously not so, |
- rather than not." |
-
- 5-2. Peter da Silva, April 24, 1993
-
- "That was Zen, this is Tao."
-
- 5-3. From the _Sundays_at_Moosewood_Cookbook_, April something, 1993 |
-
- "Don't abandon Jambalaya if you don't want to make the roux."
-
- 5-4. David L. Coffey, May 28, 1993
-
- "ZEN IS...Joyfully walking a never-ending path that does not
- exist. On a sojourn to a destination that does not exist. The
- delusion of your joy and the delusion of your existence are the
- only true reality."
-
- 5-5. Forrest Cahoon, July 7, 1993
-
- "Uh...the Tao that can be posted...er, uh...never mind."
- |
- 5-6. R. J. Mulroy, August 24, 1993 |
- |
- "Courage, serenity, and wisdom are just dry grass." |
- |
- 5-7. John C. Abbe, aka Rademir, November 2, 1993 |
- |
- "Nyah nyah, you're more enlightened than I am!" |
- |
- 5-8. El Dupree, sometime in his fabled past |
- |
- "Bof!" |
- |
- 5-9. El Dupree, sometime in his fabled past |
- |
- "Bof!" |
-