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  • This rifftrax-worthy imaginary comment by Bodhi is part of a slate. com article about Point Break and "How macho movies get misread as homoerotic."

    "It's the most excellent Johnny Utah, my little droogs" trinfaneb 2008

  • There have been many beings who, like Sumedha here, were to become Buddhas, and who were therefore called Bodhi-sattas or “Future Buddhas.

    The Story of Sumedha. I. The Buddha. Translated from the Introduction to the Jtaka (i. 31). 1909

  • Dog faces being issued with Asbo for skateboarding without leash A Lakeland Terrier called Bodhi has been warned he faces being issued with an animal Asbo if he is allowed to carry on skateboarding without a leash.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • I also sometimes go to a place called Bodhi and gaze at the scenery.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2009

  • I also sometimes go to a place called Bodhi and gaze at the scenery.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2009

  • Just weeks before he was arrested in connection with the shotgun killings of 19-year-old Christopher Cody Thompson and his girlfriend, Bodhisattva "Bodhi" Sherzer-Potter, 16, Collin Lee McGlaughlin was taken to the doctor by his father to see about getting psychiatric medication, according to testimony at a preliminary hearing in Barstow Superior Court.

    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Most Viewed 2009

  • And then one chill afternoon, sitting buttock to buttock with Fawn Greenstreet — Bodhi — on one side of him and Karuna on the other, staring through the long-nosed ascetic face of Geshe Stephen and digging inward, shovelful by shovelful, bup-bup-bah came to him.

    The Silence 2010

  • Everyone in the community, all 13 of them plus Geshe Stephen and Lama Katie and including their nearest neighbors, the former Forest and Fawn Greenstreet (now Dairo and Bodhi respectively), had an air horn.

    The Silence 2010

  • And worse: his proximity to Bodhi on one side and his own wife on the other, given the day and the cold of the ground and the warm inviting odor arising from them both — bup-bup-bah — was giving him an erection.

    The Silence 2010

  • But as I am driving around or doing other things where the mind tends to wander (dishes, knitting, etc.), I find my brain in this soundtrack on repeat saying, “Body-Bodhi-Body-Bodhi-Body-Bodhi …”

    Creative Every Day, Part 1 « Looking for Roots 2010

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