Tue, 31 Oct 2006
Better with Buddha
Courtney Love has turned to Nicheren Buddhism to help cure her of her addiction to alcohol. As I recall, Biy George did the same to cure his heroin addiction. Nicheren Buddhism has a funny demographic, appealing both to a poor urban community as well as to wealthy celebrities. Here's what Courtney has to say:
Love insists her hard-partying days are behind her and claims her conversion to Buddhism helped her remain sober. She explains, "I'm a Buddhist now and I chant every day. I chant for a long time. "Some people that chant, I'm just going to out them, Orlando Bloom chants, Tina Turner, they do half an hour a day. "But I was doing four and five hours a day sometimes. With smoke breaks!"
Four to five hours a day of chanting is pretty fierce dedication.
