Buddha. Let us convene and pay respect to Buddha.


   …So at parties my best friend and I would shock guests by getting them out into the backyard garden to admire the huge (4 ft.) bronze statue of the Buddha. Once all were favorably arrayed, my friend would, after proper respects to the god, leap right up to the bronze Buddha, and with a trembling display of WWF Herculean-like strength, seize and lift it by its base. Grappling with great difficulty, he'd slowly pivot and then…suddenly and furiously toss it at some awestruck and unsuspecting guest, hitting him or her *smack* in the chest!
   Well, this bronzed authentic-appearing Buddha was actually a styrofoam Buddha, and the shocked guest upon realizing this would typically laugh bubbly in nervous release and invariably pronounce: "Oh my God! I thought that it was real !" Whereupon, both my friend and I would immediately and relentlessly tear in: "It is real fool! What do you think that it is? Merely your imagination?"
   Such fun! But illustrative of the fact that reality is not black /white and that *fuzzy* expressions of hybrid truths are more amazing than logic alone allows!