Politics: Opium For The People

But we’re told that religion is the opium of the people.
Religion and politics are man-made sets of beliefs for people to follow.
As long as people are addicted to anything, it’s ‘opium’.

The Buddha and Jesus both saw limitations to the existing traditions that had become institutions of dependency posing as an analgesic to relieve suffering, but which became addictive. This is the same as in politics, and is due to a hierarchy of elitism.

Freeing ourselves from addiction is what the practice of meditation is all about, but we shouldn’t become addicted to meditation either.

Everything gets twisted;
being told that religion is the opium of the people
distracts from the fact that politics is also opium.

It’s all a distraction.
Pure consciousness is beyond anything organised.