If we don't want Buddhism to fail in the West, we need to stop fetishising Buddhism.
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Which comes first? Mass awakening or figuring out how to build a society where children aren't regularly killed by their peers? I feel disgusted that I have just as much compassion for a white supremacist loser who shoots up his school as I do for innocent children who get shot.
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But selective compassion is not compassion - it's tribalism. As long as we don't recognize the humanity in every tragedy, we will not have a human solution to these tragedies.
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Not long ago I would have thought Buddhism was the solution to everything. But that was comically naive, no better than a mindless religious conviction. If everything is viewed through the lens of Buddhism - or any "ism" for that matter - nothing is actually seen clearly.
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The ultimate cosmic joke is that when you see the answer to all of this it's so fucking obvious - literally too obvious to put into words. So what good is awakening anyway?
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