Sympathy for the Buddha

A report from the UK’s semi-notorious Sun reports that Jagger is a regular visitor to Laos, where, says one source:

“He spent hours with monks in the temples and chanted with them. He practises Buddhism and meditation every day. He says it’s the first thing he does when he gets up in the morning.”

This may not be the biggest news or anything, but it’s notable when a pop-cultural icon is revealed to have a spiritual leaning, and so Jagger’s is no exception, especially not to The Worst Horse. Furthermore, he’s kept relatively quiet about religion — at least since his dabblings with the Church of Satan clan back when they were the up-n-coming thing. (Jagger supplied the music for and starred in Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of my Demon Brother, a 1969 classic of underground, dark filmic weirdness.)

What’s nicest about this story (unless we choose to look at its appearance, cynically, as some kind of leak) is that it suggests that Jagger’s been going about this Buddhist meditation business quietly, and for a while now. Right on.