{"id":185,"date":"2010-04-02T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/04\/best-buddhist-april-fools\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T02:01:00","slug":"best-buddhist-april-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/04\/best-buddhist-april-fools.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Buddhist April Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The good folks at Elephant Journal<\/a> pulled out some doozies today:<\/p>\n

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Henry Rollins\u2019 New Meditation CD.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/a>Punk rock contemplation<\/div>\n
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But my favorite comes from Shambala Sun Space<\/a> via <\/b>Danny Fisher<\/b><\/a>\u00a0on twitter.\u00a0<\/b><\/span>
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\u201cSo You Think You Can Be Buddha?\u201d to debut this Summer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Big news on a new greenlighted project from us here at the Shambhala Sun Foundation. This past February, we were approached by TV producer\u00a0Mark Burnett\u00a0<\/span>(Survivor<\/span>;\u00a0The Appprentice<\/span>). Refreshingly, Burnett \u2014 who had recently converted to Buddhism<\/a> after viewing an early screening of PBS\u2019sThe Buddha<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 wants to use his significant media muscle to address the rapidly worsening condition of samsara in our time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWe can no longer wait for Maitreya\u2019s arrival in some distant, nearly immeasurable time,\u201d Burnett says in the press release announcing\u00a0So You Think You Can Be Buddha?<\/span>, a new reality\/game-show to be produced for FOX with the consultation of the staff of the Shambhala Sun. \u201cThings are bad, and any non-self-respecting Buddha must know it. We need and demand the arrival of the future Buddha now. To facilitate the discovery of the future Buddha\u2014we are taking applications for worthy candidates to participate in a show that will\u00a0truly\u00a0<\/span>change how you view reality.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So You Think You Can Be Buddha?<\/span>\u00a0will run for ten weeks this summer, with a panel of celebrity Buddhists and non-Buddhists including Goldie Hawn, Bill O\u2019Reilly, and Larry the Cable Guy, who will judge candidates for Maitreya, the future Buddha, in the following categories, among others (read on<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I saw that, I tweeted back, \u201csounds kinda horrible.\u201d Then, about 2 minutes later, the light went on and I tweeted back, \u201cWait. April Fools!?\u201d Yep.<\/p><\/div>\n

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