{"id":752,"date":"2009-08-17T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/08\/buddha-of-the-month-2.html"},"modified":"2009-08-17T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:14:40","slug":"buddha-of-the-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/08\/buddha-of-the-month-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddha of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month there&#8217;s two BoMs!<\/p>\n<p>Two friends of mine, who don&#8217;t know each other, just ran into one another in Bangkok on their peripatetic ways. This walking buddha is posted in their honor.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/343px-Buddha_sukhothaistyla.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"343px-Buddha_sukhothaistyla.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/343px-Buddha_sukhothaistyla-thumb-240x419-7239.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"419\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/span>Fotograf \/ Photographer: Heinrich Damm&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I just returned from a week of dathun, a mainly silent retreat at <a href=\"http:\/\/shambhalamountain.org\/\">Shambhala Mountain Center<\/a>,<br \/>\nColoradoa and I am not traveling right now. And was advised not to talk too<br \/>\nmuch on my first day back, so I&#8217;m sticking with pictures.<\/p>\n<p>But I did a lot of sitting, and I just like this ordinary little guy, sitting, too:<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/485px-Buddha-little.statue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"485px-Buddha-little.statue.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/485px-Buddha-little.statue-thumb-485x599-7240.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"599\" width=\"485\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>by mistvan<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis month there&#8217;s two BoMs!<\/p>\n<p>Two friends of mine, who don&#8217;t know each other, just ran into one another in Bangkok on their peripatetic ways. This walking buddha is posted in their honor.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/343px-Buddha_sukhothaistyla.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"343px-Buddha_sukhothaistyla.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/343px-Buddha_sukhothaistyla-thumb-240x419-7239.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"419\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/span>Fotograf \/ Photographer: Heinrich Damm&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I just returned from a week of dathun, a mainly silent retreat at <a href=\"http:\/\/shambhalamountain.org\/\">Shambhala Mountain Center<\/a>,<br \/>\nColoradoa and I am not traveling right now. And was advised not to talk too<br \/>\nmuch on my first day back, so I&#8217;m sticking with pictures.<\/p>\n<p>But I did a lot of sitting, and I just like this ordinary little guy, sitting, too:<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/485px-Buddha-little.statue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"485px-Buddha-little.statue.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/485px-Buddha-little.statue-thumb-485x599-7240.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"599\" width=\"485\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>by mistvan<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month there&#8217;s two BoMs! Two friends of mine, who don&#8217;t know each other, just ran into one another in Bangkok on their peripatetic ways. 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