[Buddha-l] Buddhist Charities (was Will new the pope verify Buddhist doctrine?)

[Michel Clasquin]

> For most of my life I have tried to learn to swear like a Buddhist. 
> I'd
> drop a bucket of cement on my foot and cry out "By the sacred blood 
> of
> Amitabha's mother!" Or I'd hit my thumb with a hammer and say "Gotama
> damn it!" Or I'd bang my head on a low doorway and ejaculate 
> "Suffering
> arhants!" But it always sounded a little contrived. 

Well, when there's no divine injunction against using the Buddha's name 
in 
vain, what is a mortal to do? We really ought to import this one into 
Buddhism, so that Buddhists too can feel the delicious contradiction of 
letting off steam and incurring a guilt trip simultaneously.
 
> Once I read that in Sri Lanka people say "Buddho ma," which allegedly
> means "Mother Buddha!"

Now perhaps some Sinhalese-speaker would help us out here, but I 
suspect 
that "Buddha, yo' mama" might be a more apposite translation . . .