Meditating MPs?

Re: “No, Buddha wouldn’t,” (PostBag, Oct 22).

Michael Setter’s explanation on Zen Buddhism has enlightened me somewhat. I now understand why, when seeing pictures of our leaders in parliament with their eyes closed, they are meditating, not sleeping. Whether their minds have been “confounded” and their thinking stopped as well I’m not sure. But some of the announcements and ideas they’ve put forward makes me think they are very good practitioners of Zen Buddhism.

RON MARTIN