Broken Buddha

Posted on October 13, 2007 in DBSA Support Groups and Conferences Myths & Mysticism

The speaker, a well-respected (and fortunately good-humored) San Diego County psychotherapist was giving an example of how our perceptions may shape our reaction to a piece of reality. “Let’s say, I take a statue of the Buddha and smash it on the ground. Now if you’re a Christian, it probably would not bother you. But if you were a Buddhist you –”

“– might feel joy because when you met the Buddha on the road you killed him?”