Buddhism 101

The topic of a class about china stuff i sit in was philosophy this week. (there's many things wrong with that last sentence, but i think i've lost my ability to do englihs, so i can't fix it actually.) Anyway, it briefly covered confucianism and buddhism, and what i got from it was that confucianism is all about mountains and water (though tao is also about water, aparently, no wait, in taoism woman are water, arg!) and buddhism is about having big muscles. (see! going to the gym is essential for spiritual development!)

To explain buddhim to us we watched a 15 minute exert from a dvd called 'Running on Karma' which has an ex-monk who buffs up to a huge size to kill his best friend's murderer, meanwhile the murderer kills his other best friend who let herself be killed because she realised she would die soon anyway because of her faulty soul, and the muscly ex-monk goes to the forest and takes his pants off and walks around and 8 years, has a fight with some spirits, and himself as a spirit who's older, later find the murderer and gives him a hug then takes him back to the monastery and gets new clothes and smokes a cigarette.

And that is our explaination of the concept of karma.

I'm yet to blog about the surreal nature of the hong kong education system, but let this be a prologue.

Oh, the other thing we got taught is 'If you eat a fish, you are eating your grandmother!'

Then after class we went for seafood dim sum.

But one of my grandmothers is alive, and one is dead, so i don't know which one i'm eating, not that i eat much fish for this reason. And why is there a problem of aging population in hong kong if this is the case?

Arg! so many questions, so little answers from Hong Kong Polytecnic University.