Maitreya

As someone who grew up both in the Philippines and North America, I saw statuettes of the fat Maitreya Buddha in ceramic and wood. They intrigued me. I could not foretell then my future involvement with Buddhism in its multiple forms.

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I guess that Jabba the Hutt in the Star Wars franchise alludes to the fat Maitreya Buddha.

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After lunchtime on the drizzling 28th of February of 2022, walking outside, I saw my corpulent white neighbour in black, as he walked, reminding me of fat Maitreya Buddha. At the main road, my stocky Mediterranean neighbour in jeans hosed his car tire. In the pizzeria, I had mushroom greens chicken pizza and a black effervescent drink. There were many handsome students, with titillating hairy legs.

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In the morning of the 12th of March of 2022, I took a long route going to the cafe. I saw Eurasian children with brownish hair in the Lulu Island neighbourhood. I saw that the cherry blossoms had not yet bloomed in the school yard. I sat in the gazebo to gaze at the grey-sky landscape. I saw my big neighbour in a grey jacket and black pants, as he looked like promenading fat Maitreya Buddha. At the cafe, drinking my iced black tea, I chatted with the brunette barista Sarah from Montreal about how the cherry blossoms seemed late this year. I went to the quiet pizzeria, and Rose the Filipina was unusually there on a Saturday. Eating pizza, her son John-Paul was there, who did not want to go to martial-arts class today, because of feeling too lazy. I ate a slice and drank cold diet cola.

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