At 10:33 pm one summer evening, an irrepressibly irreverent, sixty-something businessman from Boston named Sidney has three transcendent experiences: An orgasm. A seizure. And the realization he is the Buddha.

In this opening episode, between surgery, time in the ICU, and then settling into his hospital room, he tries to understands what it means that he is the Buddha. He thinks it might be just some post stroke psychosis but every time he tries shrugging the thought off, a bolt of lightning goes through his head. The Buddha clearly means business.

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