Pope
The holy man's death wakes a long buried feeling of being a Catholic in me. I was baptised right after birth, but started learning Buddhism only a handful of years ago. The Catholic practice nurtured in me a mild but sustainable religious temperament, which allows the seed of Buddhism to grow later. In fact, I appreciate much better the good disciples of Jesus only after I learn the Oriental philosophy, from a different perspective. Anyway, I mean to state only my respect and gratitude with condolence at the occasion, despite its "alternative" tone. (You may want to read Living Buddha, Living Christ which depicts similar cross-religion view with more insights.)A friend remarked he will avoid any news these two days since the incident seems too sentimental in the media. Well, I say they are much better already than those "reminiscent" comments about Tung, the chief Executive of the HK government, when he resigned two weeks ago. Also, I learnt much more, if not too late, about the revolutionary (f)acts of the first non-Italian Pope, from website like EWTN, the news site of the Catholic Church. And a less official one with an exhaustive archive of links at BuzzMachine.
As the best way to commemorate a spiritual teacher, perhaps we can try to fulfill at least one deed following his teaching. I guess it would mean being less sentimental.
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