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George Saunders & Suffering as Insight
husseyalan
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I just finished his book 'Tenth of December' and thoroughly recommend it. I recently became aware that he is a practitioner of Buddhism. He states on Buddhism:
"“I was writing a long time before I was a Buddhist and they’re not that much different, in the way that any authentic spiritual thing is about seeing what it is, what’s going on, and being willing to look at it honestly.”
I'll be honest in admitting that hearing Saunders was a practitioner of Buddhism gave me a surprise - his short stories can be described as bleak, morbid etc...
Would anyone feel that his work is a contradiction to his practice?
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No more than Richard Gere's is of his....
Or Zenith Steve Jobs or Tibetan Buddhist retreatant David Bowie or Bodhi Bill Clinton ... we come in all shapes and sizes
http://www.examiner.com/list/celebrity-buddhists