Meditation for November 6th, 2016
10 Misconceptions About Buddhism
Buddhism is the world’s third or fourth largest religion – depending how you want to break up the Judeo Christian religions. The exotic spiritual practice has gained interest from western seekers, but because of misinterpretation, racism, and money making schemes, Buddhism has a lot of misconceptions.
Let’s dispel 10 of them shall we?
All Buddhists meditate
Wrong! Only monks meditate. Who the fuck has time for silent reflection while fucking paying attention to your goddamned breath. No one, that’s who.
Buddhists pay monks to meditate for them.
Buddhism’s goal is mindfulness
Where the fuck did you get this? Mindfulness is just a safer, more expensive way to say selfish meditation. If you want to be rich and rip off other people to get a sale, then buy a mindfulness book.
Buddhists use many different methods of meditation for many different goals.
All Buddhists are vegetarians
So sad to tell you vegetarians, but Buddhist monks beg for their food, so if you give them a leg of lamb wrapped in bacon stuffed into a steak, they have to eat it.
Many Buddhists are vegetarians, but some have taste. Tibetan Buddhists, the ones you hippies love to quote, eat meat; while the Chinese Buddhists, who you hippies vilify, are vegetarian.
All Buddhists are pacifists
Hahahaha! That’s cute. Remember Japan flying airplanes into our ships? They were doing that for Buddhism and maybe a little bit of nationalism. Tibetans loved war and was a part of their belief system.
Monestaries used to train for warfare to take, not to defend.
Buddhism is a philosophy and not a religion
The main belief in Buddhism is that a believer is living to get ready for the next life. That is a little more than a philosophy, I’d say. You have to have a ridiculous religious faith to swallow some of the dumb shit in Buddhism as you would in Christianity, Hinduism, or Islam.
Buddhism is just as whacked as the next religion.
Buddha was a human being, so where are the beliefs in God?
They believe in all kind of stupid colorful gods, demi-gods, and divine humans who live in both worlds. They have prayer beads and spend a lot of time praying their asses off for the same shit other religions do.
Jesus was a god, wasn’t he?
Zen doesn’t do traditional Buddhism
These weirdos burn statues of Buddha and scorn the teachings, but this is only half true. Like Picasso in his study of art, these Buddhists learn the strictest version of Buddhism before tearing it down.
You need to be good at what you revel against.
The four noble truths are “noble”
The four noble truths are: suffering, origin, cessation, and path. These only exist in certain people. The word for these very special people are Aryans. The four noble truths also were the four arms of the Nazi swastika.
Buddhism is pretty much responsible for the holocaust.
Zen is dedicated to suddenly being enlightened
Zen monks run around acting like assholes trying to encite a sudden psychic rearrangement. They will put ethics and wisdom to the wayside to attain this spiritual perma-high.
Just shoot up speedballs, hippy.
Buddhism is just one path to the mountain top
No, just like all other religions and cults, Buddhists feel theirs is the one true path. They might be nicer than some other religious zealots, the aim truth is that they feel sorry for those who do not follow their path to enlightenment.
This is why people create Buddhist meditation retreats to get your money. Money is the one true path.