![]() If you like religious processions and guys parading around in funny hats, you can get that at the Episcopal cathedral, and you don’t have to sit on the floor. The Tibetans espouse pacifism, charge membership fees to belong to their temples, and pray to deities. Overshadowed as it is with expensive Vajrayana temples situated in suburbs, “The Great White Sangha” is put to shame for its lack of social engagement by even the most podunk Baptist church. The work was so hard and dangerous I joined the Marines to get away from it.įact is, it’s intellectualism that makes American institutional Buddhism the joke that it is. ![]() ![]() I laugh in their face and point to myself - do I look like an intellectual to you? I used to be a farm hand, and broke my back doing 60-pound pours of corrosive resistant plastic at 550 degrees when I was a United Steelworker. ![]() Man, if I had a dollar for every time somebody’s said to me that “you have to be an intellectual to get Buddhism,” I’d have enough for a case of beer. ![]()
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