Reality might ruin the fun. And it might spoil the good shopping too. Buddhism has brought meaning and happiness to the lives of millions of people for thousands of years, of course. Buddhism has brought a great deal of that to me too. But it's a religion, probably no better or worse than the other great ones.
People are people, and even with the best intentions, weird things happen.
Related on the Web The Encarta encyclopedia entry on Buddhism is here . For more on the Dalai Lama, click here . Daily Zen provides a new koan every day, and Blavatsky Net is the mother lode of Theosophy info on the Web. MSN's eShop offers Zen alarm clocks , Zen soap stones , a Zen koan card pack , and a Zen gardening kit . Somebody missed the point of more than just your article.