[url="http://www.sify.com/finance/buddhism-india-s-gift-to-steve-jobs-news-international-lkgnudfiaib.html#.To3k8XF3NZM.twitter"]Buddhism - India's gift to Steve Jobs[/url]
[size="3"]Yes, it quite reminiscent of George Harrison's touching association with the HK's, the only Beetle who did not U-turn.
There is possibly a very small subset of "moderns" who will not revert to heathenism (which is very difficult to imbibe), but perhaps take a personal retreat into some alternate field such as tech (since they can intuit that a reversion will be unseemly).. These are very different than the appropriators, denigrators (New Age), and gaudy exhibitionists and self-aggrandizers with which we are all familiar.. These gems are few and far between..[/size]
Quote:Like it has done to so many icons across the world, India was the source of spirituality to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who later converted to Buddhism.
Jobs had taken a "spiritual retreat to India" and "traversing through the country had sparked Jobs' conversion to Buddhism," a CNN report said.
Jobs had travelled to India in the late 1970s, with money he had saved working as a technician at a video games manufacturer in the US.
He reportedly visited the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend Daniel Kottke in search of spiritual enlightenment.
Born in 1955 in San Francisco, Jobs grew up amid the rise of hippie counter-culture. Bob Dylan and the Beatles were his two favourite musical icons and he shared their political leanings and anti-establishment views.
"Like the Beatles, Jobs took a spiritual retreat to India and regularly walked around his neighbourhood and the office barefoot," the CNN report said.
[size="3"]Yes, it quite reminiscent of George Harrison's touching association with the HK's, the only Beetle who did not U-turn.
There is possibly a very small subset of "moderns" who will not revert to heathenism (which is very difficult to imbibe), but perhaps take a personal retreat into some alternate field such as tech (since they can intuit that a reversion will be unseemly).. These are very different than the appropriators, denigrators (New Age), and gaudy exhibitionists and self-aggrandizers with which we are all familiar.. These gems are few and far between..[/size]