01.28.12

New Age Buddhism: a thirty year waste of time?

Posted in General at 2:50 pm by nemo

Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Part II)
I can only speak for myself here, but can only note with sadness that thirty years of contact with buddhism has produced no result.
To be fair, I have been distracted by horrible distracting distractions, like rogue sufism, poison cabalah, and much else, but also bodhisattwic poison mahayana, the dalai lama’s exceptional ass-holehood, able to asphyxiate eager adherents, etc, etc…
Worse off than when I started???? Again, to be fair, society is doing everything it can to destroy buddhism. And that includes Xtian platitude religion, much threatened by its lack of meditation, or any awareness of the path to enlightenment, …eh?
But….
This is a useful article on the maladaptation of buddhism to contemporary culture: the inability to get right the place of women. I think the problem is soluble, but only if the problem of buddhism is soluble. I fear it is not. BTW, the question struggled with here was solved so easily by Rajneesh who made the place of women central in his neo-buddhism. That initiative is unknown or ignored by current ‘frozen buddhism’.
But more generally I have to throw up my hands with the question of buddhism.
I have defended buddhism here many times, cf. the review of Flanagan, but I have to wonder at the lack of response from buddhists. Why can’t they do this themselves?

How can you defend something if 1. you have no place in it, 2. aren’t welcome at any of their institutions, 3. can’t follow any institutional path (weekend cash on the barrel activities are of course an exception), 4. suffer occult attacks from svengali monstrosities, not only buddhist, with no opportunity to seek ‘refuge’ in the classic manner (the lineage is too brain dead to grasp what is afoot), 5. look with alarm at the probable death by asphyxiation of the PR liberals of western buddhism destined to be murdered spiritually by the hidden occult fascists, anti-modern reactionaries..it gets worse… 6., 7,…..
Now under (ab)normal circumstances this kind of sickening chaos would actually serve to fuel the buddhist path, but no such luck here. These people are really frozen. Cold storage cold cases.
Disregard all of the above, but ask why this movement is barren of result? How many yogis in India in the past fifty years have reached nirvey scalp samadhi, which the Western flock, well, cold storage, the cold cases.
The question that must be addressed is, what has gone wrong, and can anything be done? The question of women is so easy to solve, but can’t be, a warning that the form of buddhism has to yield to a new buddhism altogether. I think that must require the appearance of a truly realized Western buddhist to lay the foundations for something new, and real. In fact, Rajneesh (since we are talking about the place of women in buddhism) did just that a generation ago, and was murdered, probably by some covert agency. That’s a strong suggestion that the system is conspiring to keep people asleep (what else is new) and that this has left the whole buddhist movement conveniently, well, in cold storage, those cold cases, again, murdered in their sleep–by sleep.
Time is running out on all of this. In another NY minute, the use of the term ‘nirvana’ is going to be cultural anathema, with the Dalai Lama’s peaceful coexistence with buddhism demise.

I am glad I am not welcome there anymore. You could start by throwing the Dalai Lama out of Mahayana. Lock him in the Caves of Almora. He could still have press conferences, but…No more bodhisattwa path: end of the line in nirvana, reopen the cold case.

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