Where Buddhists Go Wrong

We forget we are just people.
This happens in all religions.

We may talk about compassion for ‘poor’ people, and get together to raise money for a guru’s charity, but all this seems to do is build bigger temples and statues. Sounds familiar? People are just people; believing is easier than knowing. When we actually know, we actually have compassion for all.

Compassion doesn’t seem to be available for those students who no longer believe in the stories, and are having trouble conforming to ritualistic displays. We talk much about essence and love and deities … and that’s all. Ritual display becomes an entertainment – a good luck charm. Honest communication is rare.

No one asks why people leave spiritual groups
or are excommunicated – excluded from the community.
There is no concern about their wellbeing.

This is because there are always others
to fill the smiling photographs.

Honest communication
is rarer than a turtle coming to the surface of a ocean
once every hundred years.

It’s okay to feel pissed off.
That is the raw reality we have to deal with.