The Spiritual Genius of Oscar the Grouch

Ben Freeland
6 min readMar 19, 2019

The beloved Sesame Street curmudgeon is a Buddha in disguise.

Source: National Museum of American History — Smithsonian Institution

Here’s a no-brainer of a question for you, which recently took the Twittersphere by storm: if you had to be marooned on a deserted island with one of the following four Sesame Street characters — Grover, Elmo, Cookie Monster, or Oscar the Grouch, which would you choose?

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Ben Freeland

Writer. Communicator. Grammar cop. Distance runner. Historian in the wilderness.