Western interpretation of Eastern philosophies amounts to little more than smoking weed all day and recording the occasional rock album.
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i have studied zen, Taoism and Hindu Vedanta in and outside of academia, without a doubt i can tell you 90% of people who take an
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interest in eastern thought either misappropriate it, get stuck in trying to "westernize" it by making into a self-help
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consumerist mode, or use it as a justification for their liberal cosmopolitan "we are all connected brah" ideal! the eastern
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thinkers were much more nuanced than this, hence why jung saw a danger in western moderns appropriating it.
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