OT: Bill Murray's fabulous monologue

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The religious truths thread got me recalling one of my favorite parts of Caddyshack (an all time favorite movie of mine -- I've seen this silly, dopey and brilliant movie probably 15 times).

Bill Murray as Carl Spackler is explaining...

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me?

(dramatic pause for a microsecond)

The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking.

So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says?

(another dramatic microsecond pause)

Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga...

(wow...)

So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know."

And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die...on your deathbed...you will receive total consciousness."


So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
 
LMAO!

Bill Murray is hilarious.
And then to think he also did "the razor's edge", an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's novel about a man's (Larry Darrel) quest to find the meaning of life.
This movie is what got me first thinking about Buddhism.

Favorite quotes from the movie;

Larry Darrel: When Piedmont died, I had to pay him back for my life. I found out there's another debt to pay - for the privilege of being alive. I thought Sophie was my reward for trying to live a good life. Uh uh. There is no payoff - not now.

Tibetan Monk: The pathway to salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge
 
from Chevy Chase in the same movie...

"A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish."
 
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