/lit/ - Literature

>>20966005
I've had a NDE but the saintly halo it held over me has passed long ago and I've been hollowed out by daily drudgery since. Too many draining interlocutors. Worse, I'm in danger of temptations now I feel no reverent fear as instinctive response anymore but gullible hunger and lust. You must repeat the experience continually. You musn't sit on your old laurels too long as I do with my now weakened heart.

>>20113370
Westerners are cut off at the root made like a palm stump from their own ancestral fundamentals let alone those of other peoples.
The obstacles to understand the Buddha as a westerner are so fearsome because of our martyr tradition itself becoming a bloody hegemony in denial, even worse abroad than within the comfortable borders. Buddhists are recluses with vows of poverty one must approach in depth not extroverted wealthy evangelists with portable bibles. Only rich westerners willing to learn new languages do much with that quest and rarely do they influence anyone but a few open minded people with less resource to such refuge. Worse today in wage slavery it's a cargo cult.