Reply #33: Where his Buddhabellybe?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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I've always liked and identified with (and at times LOOKED like) the post-ascetic Buddha.
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And, modest though I may be... I think you'll see in the next passage that there are good
reasons for that.
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The Brahmin Sonadanda described him as "handsome, good-looking, and pleasing to
the eye, with a most beautiful complexion. He has a godlike form and countenance,
he is by no means unattractive."
"It is wonderful, truly marvellous, how serene is the good Gotama's appearance,
how clear and radiant his complexion, just as the golden jujube in autumn is clear
and radiant, just as a palm-tree fruit just loosened from the stalk is clear and
radiant, just as an adornment of red gold wrought in a crucible by a skilled goldsmith,
deftly beaten and laid on a yellow-cloth shines, blazes and glitters, even so, the
good Gotama's senses are calmed, his complexion is clear and radiant."
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Plus, we both got blue eyes n' stuff.
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Signed,
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...MFM -- your golden jujube on the path of life
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