Thereby hangs the tail---nightclub Buddhists.

[Guest guest]

Namaste All,

 

I have just got an answer from George Fetherling of the Vancouver Sun,

today on why so many are not what they seem.

 

He calls the new Buddhists, 'Nightclub Buddhists'.He says they are

growing at a faste rate than serious inquirers.

 

"These are people who have become Buddhist or call themselves that

because of the restraints an constraints of the regular religions of

Judaism, Christianity, Islam etc. They don't want to be text-bound, so

fewer texts means fewer rules, thus an increased ability to make up a

personally monogrammed version of living to suit every taste; salad

bar religion., or rather spirituality."

 

He says the link between spirituality and being 'holy', has been

broken a lot.

 

" Being spiritual doesn't commit you to anything. It just covers your

ass and makes you all warm and fuzzy."

 

I agree with him after my experiences with so called Buddhists and

spiritual people. Now I understand why they drink alcohol, eat meat

and endlessly prattle or quote reams of stuff---'grim reamers'.

 

It is not so much that they want to eliminate the ego but give it more

rein in an ersatz, shallow, fashionable spirituality, without any

committments to the original 'revelation or guru'. I include the

verbal non-dualists in this also. They have found an even easier way

of non committment, they can go on all day talking about an egg,

without eating it.

 

So now my perplexity about people is clearer. I will no longer

consider them 'real and true', but brand name fashion, and I won't

interact with them for that only insults their huge selective,

intellectual egos.

 

Committment talks, Bullshit walks. Kind like living together, no

marriage no committment.

 

Om Nama Sivaya.....Tony.