Buddha Visits Koh Samui in Year 2555....

Buddha Visits Koh Samui in Year 2555 - Chris Coles

Spiritually exhausted from his discouraging visits to the Bangkok Night, Pattaya Walking Street and Hat Yai, the reincarnated Buddha retreats to Thailand's island paradise, Koh Samui where he hopes to bring his teachings to the island's tens of thousands of youthful visitors from Europe, Israel, Australia, Iran and North America.

But after 24 hours on the island, he's in shock, speechless and feeling lost in the face of the ongoing spectacle of extreme drunkenness, debauchery, gluttony, sexual abandonment, sensual indulgence and rampant use of drugs and stimulants.

The entire island archipelago appears to have been transformed into an offshore platform whose sole purpose is to generate enormous amounts of cash for its Thai owners by providing an international zone of hedonism where the cravings of an infinite river of young farang, both male and female, can be played out without restraint.

What happened to good intention, mindfulness, compassion, the Middle Way, the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Three Marks of Existence.....the ideals of virtuous behaviour, ethical existence, morality, the relationship between desire and suffering? And why does no one seem to care.........

Buddha Visiting Hat Yai in the Year 2554

Buddha Visiting Hat Yai in the Year 2554

In Year 2554, Buddha visits Thailand to see the result of his lifelong work, the cause & effect, the relation between good intention, mindfulness and result.

After several evenings in the Bangkok Night & then a weekend on Walking Street in Pattaya, Buddha's discouraged but not disheartened & he heads down to Hat Yai, in Thailand's Deep South near the border with Malaysia....a city of 150,000 Buddhists & Muslims with 40,000 hotel rooms, 10,000 bars, thousands of rentboys, 4 ladyboy revues & tens of thousands of young females from every district of Thailand dressed in very skimpy costumes.

From his room at the Pink Lady Hotel, he watches as tens of thousands of Malaysians arrive for a weekend of drinking & partying.......and, with a quiet sigh, accepts that his work in Thailand has only just begun.....

Buddha Visiting the Bangkok Night in the Year 2554...

Buddha Visiting the Bangkok Night in the Year 2554

Buddha visiting the Bangkok Night in Year 2554......astonished at his unintentional legacy. Mindfulness? Desire is an illusion? Suffering is caused by craving? Good intention? Acting in harmful ways? Meditation in front of cement elephants? Where did it all go wrong?