Apparently the reincarnation of Buddha has been hanging out under a tree in Kathmandu for the last 10 months and nobody told me! I just found out that he disappeared, and I never even knew he existed.
Wasting time at work – which I find myself doing more and more these days – I stumbled across this article about how this 15 year old kid named Ram Bahadur Banjan, who is believed to be the reincarnation of Buddha, has mysteriously vanished. He's been sitting under a tree 100 miles south of Kathmandu meditating for almost a year, supposedly without food or water. Furthermore, observers say he hasn’t even so much as taken a piss for the last 6 months.
I found the story oddly fascinating until I read that his keepers don’t allow anyone to view him after sundown, at which point they erect a screen blocking the view of the boy. That’s a little suspect. In any case, he’s vanished and no one knows where he went and only his clothes remain behind.
So if you happen to see a 15 year old boy walking through the Nepali forest in the middle of the night in just his boxers, don’t be alarmed. It’s just Buddha.
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