{"id":107,"date":"2008-03-27T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/03\/the-buddha-in-his-own-words.html"},"modified":"2008-03-27T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:49:41","slug":"the-buddha-in-his-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/03\/the-buddha-in-his-own-words.html","title":{"rendered":"The Buddha In His Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine has a friend who recently saw a play, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebuddhaplay.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Buddha &#8211; In His Own Words&#8221;<\/a> and recommended it to me. When pressed about it he said, simply, &#8220;it&#8217;s supposed to be good.&#8221; It&#8217;s not much of an endorsement, but it looks interesting and comes highly praised by Mark Epstein, author of the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=G5hVLk40qwwC&amp;dq=thoughts+without+a+thinker&amp;pg=PP1&amp;ots=Yra8GaJ8Dr&amp;sig=Ctubf72COQkEFdfkwXIXCMl92rM&amp;hl=en&amp;prev=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=thoughts+without+a+thinker&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=print&amp;ct=title&amp;cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPP1,M1\" target=\"_blank\">Thoughts Without A Thinker<\/a>.<br \/>\nSeems worth a look.<br \/>\n-Stillman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine has a friend who recently saw a play, &#8220;The Buddha &#8211; In His Own Words&#8221; and recommended it to me. 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