zen bunny

what a concept

easter is not buddhist but for a moment, just picture a zen bunny. why is that so strange? think about this for a minute ... easter did not begin with christianity. oh, no. if it did, we wouldn't have holiday icons such as painted eggs, and marshmallow chicks, baked ham, all that schtuff.

as an itty bitty kid, i always wondered why it was that if christmas was about the birth, we had pine trees, wreaths, stockings, and santa claus ... because santa sure didn't come from bethlehem did he???

...and how exactly do you get chocolate, sexy undies and valentine cards from reading the story of st valentine?

i know about st patrick and the snakes, but it didn't have anything in that story about a pot of gold or leprechauns???

well, i'm seriously wondering ... i mean, can you just see it? two thousand years ago, people sitting there thinking, "yanno, if we don't figure out something, we're going to lose the rest of them back to the whole pagan thing ..." and someone else saying "hey ... if we sort of adjust things ... we could tie these events to ..." i'm not nuts (well not totally) ... look at the year. it would have been about two thousand years ago, right?

... so ...a zen bunny. think about it for a minute ... seriously ... a wild rabbit does not live a life of excess (hey! they're far less prolific than mice!) ... it lives it's life as best as it knows how, and for all you know, that rabbit attacking your garden is a buddhist who schlepped his previous incarnation and is still getting adjusted to the consequences lmao

so ... a zen bunny ...reminds me of a birthday card i have. it has a picture of a donkey on the cover. inside it says,

Hi! I'm the Happy Birthday Donkey!
Don't laugh ... this is how the Easter Bunny got started!