If we don't want Buddhism to fail in the West, we need to stop fetishising Buddhism.
We're so caught up in being "right", when there's nothing to be right about.
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so if humans drop their ideologies, suffering will disappear?
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It would be a hell of a first step. I would argue that much of the reason we don't seem to give a shit about anyone that isn't us is because we're blinded by our beliefs.
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and what is the solution?
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To stop asking what the right thing is to believe, and start asking what is the most useful action to take in each circumstance.
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Put another way, if we navigate the world through propositional ethics - those guided by beliefs in what is right or wrong - we get blinded by the lens through which we're viewing the world.
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