Conversation between Rocky and I yesterday:

Me:  What I don’t understand about Buddhism is that all the great leaders who were enlightened and came back…some of them over and over again.  If enlightenment means being completely free of attachment…what brings them back?  I mean, they MUST be attached to something.  I mean, if you are enlightened, why would you feel any need to come back and help others?  And it’s not as though it’s necessary.  I mean, THESE people got enlightened, right?  People will get enlightened with or without them.

Rocky:  So they’re not enlightened?

Me:  Well, they can’t be, can they, if they have a false sense of their own importance that keeps bringing them back when they’re supposedly ready to go on.  And if they’re not ready to go on…how can they help us?

Rocky:  So, they need to take a lesson from Jesus, die, come back once, and move on?

Me:  Well…yeah.  I mean, Jesus is the REAL gangsta, man.  He rules from the INSIDE.

Rocky:  You are going to hell in so many different religions.