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2023-12-11 What's Right and Left Anyways?
These people who use pseudo-Buddhist and psuedo-eastern-spirituality have missed the mark, because they only bothered to study a superficial part of the religions they have taken for themselves. This pseudo-Buddhism in the west has turned from an ethical system that was between extreme asceticism and extreme hedonism into a system that is barely ethical but extremely ascetic. This is certainly not what Buddha imagined or what the tradition is, and this form of pseudo-Buddhism is extremely destrimental.
Now you got me wondering whether I sound/read pseudo-Buddhist. Probably. I mean, anything's possible in the realm of others interpreting what they're convinced themselves they're seeing.
<scans posts>
Hmmm. I've yet to use the word 'attachment' in a post in this capsule. So maybe I'm not as pseudo-Buddhist sounding as I was starting to imagine others maybe *thought* "I" was/am?
It's just so friggin' *cray* when different reality-modeling contexts come together to use the same words!
Buddhism becomes a political tool to fight back against the idea of identity rather than a way of bettering the world and yourself. Instead of focusing on your own spiritual journey, you start judging other people and focusing on what you think they should be doing. And further yet, pseudo-Buddhists have detached themselves from religion altogether, and view their form of Buddhism as intellectually superior. They focus more on feeling superior to others than on the ethical nature of Buddhism itself.
Even if I hadn't read somewhere (although it's actually more like hundreds of somewhere-s...) that identity was the root of The Problem, I don't see how I eventually wouldn't have come to that conclusion anyway. Grant it, I've not had white-light-grade physical pain of late. But even when there's physical pain, careful examination has me seeing a big component of the overall pain picture being in the "feeling sorry for my*self*" zone. And even sans physical pain, certainly most sadness/depression/fear I've experienced is more likely and deeper when "I'm" more focused on "poor whittle victim *me*".
It *definitely* seems the biggest component of others wailing and/or gnashing their teeth.
I'd think any-sane-one seeing and understanding that connection would want to flee their "precious whittle self", not put the fucker on a pedestal - i.e. strive to draw others' attention to it - for others to be amazed with and/or feel sorry for.
The second half of the previous sentence is what/how the modern hyper-focus on individuality/gender seems to <cough> me.