Article: SPIRITUALITY: Blues For Buddha

SPIRITUALITY: Blues For Buddha

Blues for Buddha

By Jed McKenna



Being critical of Buddhism isn't easy.



Buddhism is the most likable of the major religions, and Buddhists are the perennial good guys of modern spirituality. Beautiful traditions, lovely architecture, inspiring statuary, ancient history, the Dalai Lama ? what's not to like?



Everything about Buddhsim is just so... nice. No fatwahs or jihads, no inquisitions or crusades, no terrorists or pederasts, just nice people being nice. In fact, Buddhism means niceness. Nice-ism.



At least, it should.



Buddha means Awakened One, so Buddhism can be taken to mean Awake-ism. Awakism. It would therefore be natural to think that if you were looking to wake up, then Buddhism, i.e., Awakism, would ...
 

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