Be excellent to each other....

[CyberDude]

Anyone else remember that Keanu Reaves played Buddha? In "The Little Buddha". I'm sure there were better choices but I honestly think he did a great job. I mean he essentially played himself, with a slight accent and a tan. After all Buddha is a Dude like Keanu and the rest of us. So I don't imagine the real Buddha being much different. I believe that's also the film that inspired Keanu to become a Buddhist.

[stella]

Bill and Ted are from Los Angeles County. The Dude is from Los Angeles County. Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

[Abideist]

must be something in the water.

[BikerDude]

Thus spoke Keanu?

Hmmmmmmm. Something is lost.

[HnauHnakrapunt]

Keanu Reeves in The Merchent of Venice

I think 'Feeling Minnesota' is more dudelike. Some people dislike it. I dig it. A man with no clear plans for the future tries to help a girl who is to be married to somebody she does not like. They travel, drink, make love in strange places and try to abide all the time.

Keanu played Buddha and because of that he was asked during interviews to explain Buddhism, but he is not a Buddhist. He believes in some kind of energy that flows through the universe not without reason. And as a young man he went to a Catholic school for a year. He says it was because of hockey but I can see some Catholic hints in his filmography. Not those family Christian movies, rather Dan Brown style stuff, but still.

If you want to see the total Buddhist Keanu - try not 'The Little Buddha', being still halfway, but 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' (2008) where he plays an alien trying to get used to human body. Something between a newborn baby and a marble statue.