Sickest Buddhist, from that dude on that show.

on Dec 11, 2009

Sickest Buddhist!

Arj Barker of Flight of the Conchords goes to the Zen Center and KILLS IT!!!!

The above is equally funny for those passionate about their spirituality and those who enjoy deriding love-n’-light touchy-feely namaste types. It’s an offensive, funny, three-minute version of Chogyam Trungpa’s seminal “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism,” one could say.

“I’m so present I am ahead of my time”

“The instructor just told us to do a 45 minute meditation–I nailed it in 10!”

“I’ll nonattach your ass.”

“Organic cereallll…he’s so sweet and Buddhist, unh! I make the power of now look like the power of then. I chill with Eckhart Tolle, Deepak and Siddhartha. One hand clappin’ eff that yo…”

Someone please transcribe these lyrics and email ‘em to me so I can post ‘em…they’re ca-lassic.

With thanks for the tip to Sweigh Emily Spilkin, what? And here’s some great commentary by Buddhist brotherman Ethan Nichtern, who dares be insightful and trouble-making (while my commentary above is, simply, simple).

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demetripacho says:

August 2, 2009 at 17:43

"I'm so effing present, I'm like ahead of my time!" Also, gotta love the nod to Flavor Flav….giant OM necklace.

maie says:

August 6, 2009 at 23:32

http://www.yogadork.com/2009/08/03/viral-yoga-arj...

lyrics on above site

MissCory says:

December 11, 2009 at 19:54

this is HILARIOUS

LindaSama says:

December 11, 2009 at 20:48

hilarious….but that's filmed at Spirit Rock in Woodacre, CA — it's not strictly zen. just sayin'.

Bob Weisenberg says:

December 15, 2009 at 20:19

This is very, very well done. Thanks for the entertainment.

Bob Weisenberg
http://YogaDemystified.com

YogaforCynics says:

December 23, 2009 at 03:41

It's great that this is back…hopefully it won't disappear.
Anyway, when it was last available, last summer or so, somebody (Yogadork?) posted lyrics…so I'd suggest checking there if nobody e-mails them…

Dave Burdick says:

January 13, 2010 at 19:10

Love it.

rachel says:

May 11, 2010 at 01:18

major LOLZ! love it.

Greg says:

May 11, 2010 at 16:03

Am rifling through the original Sanskrit texts to find instructions from the Buddha re rappers. I believe he advised some form of homicide. Strangling by prayer beads looked too tame.