{"id":701,"date":"2006-10-11T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/has-rod-found-buddha-within.html"},"modified":"2006-10-11T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T23:32:00","slug":"has-rod-found-buddha-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/has-rod-found-buddha-within.html","title":{"rendered":"Has A-Rod Found &#8216;The Buddha Within&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a dismal season for Yankees third baseman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/players\/rodriguez_alex\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Rodriguez<\/a> (a.k.a. A-Rod) with fielding errors and batting slumps as well as boos from New York fans. Even the newspaper headlines have been seething, asking readers questions like: &#8220;Do You Hate This Man?&#8221; Boyhood chum and pro-ball player Doug Mientkiewicz quipped in late September: &#8220;I would have thought he&#8217;d have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge by now.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But one possible clue to A-Rod&#8217;s staying power was revealed this week by ESPN-2 and <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/tsc.html?URI=http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/10\/sports\/baseball\/10araton.html&amp;OQ=_rQ3D1&amp;OP=61d12b5eQ2FQ25FYqQ25HgfQ5EQ5EHQ254Q5CQ5CQ3EQ25Q22Q5CQ25Q22Q5CQ25gDQ5EfHgQ25q(gYq(Q51Q51Q25Q22Q5C(f(HQ5EQ7B1iHwQ51\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>: A copy of Lama Surya Das&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Awakening-Buddha-Within-Tibetan-Western\/dp\/0767901576\/sr=8-1\/qid=1160592284\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-7638272-0731123?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World&#8221;<\/a> has been spied sitting in Rodriguez&#8217;s locker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a very challenging year,&#8221; Rodriguez has said. &#8220;You have to experience it and learn from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds to me like the book&#8217;s been doing more than just sitting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a dismal season for Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (a.k.a. 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