[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA08qeQ8Q28"]Aikido in Combat - Ram Dass - YouTube[/ame] It's a nice story I suppose.
Ram Dass reminds me of the cracked article (SEE #3): http://www.cracked.com/article_18821_5-examples-americans-thinking-foreign-people-are-magic.html "As Salon.com's Sandip Roy puts it, "I couldn't help wondering, where do those people in Indonesia and India go away to when they lose their passion, spark and faith? I don't think they come to Manhattan. I wonder if there could be an exchange program for the passion-deprived, a sort of global spark-swap." Imagine it ..." We're no more enlightened than a bunch of wiccan druids
Sounds too flowery to me...and a bit similar to CW Nichol's story from "Moving Zen" if I am being honest