tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post5289176004150745685..comments2024-02-14T08:44:41.513+00:00Comments on Progressive Buddhism: If you see the nice buddhists on the road, run over them with your tankMyeong Jin Eunsahn http://www.blogger.com/profile/10324409234993116264noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-20215405568675505882014-02-19T20:00:24.076+00:002014-02-19T20:00:24.076+00:00Leave those Tri-hard cyclists alone.Leave those Tri-hard cyclists alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-54406125316522217072012-09-02T02:21:29.459+01:002012-09-02T02:21:29.459+01:00Matthew, I think you may have fallen in with a cov...Matthew, I think you may have fallen in with a coven of authentic Buddhist writers/people. Honor them. Trust them, you lucky duck. They are rare and might die off and leave people like me in the utter darkness. Happily, yak_kao is supplying me with suitable weaponry to shoot in the direction of any sounds I hear. I will be safe ... but alone. -- TomAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-1546343798341270702012-08-27T20:09:24.406+01:002012-08-27T20:09:24.406+01:00Couldn't disagree with you more, you demonstra...Couldn't disagree with you more, you demonstrate a total lack of practical experience. An Uzi is not useful for this, far to unrelieable. Only advantage of it is that it is small and you can hide it (there might be another one in closed surroundings, but don't want to discuss it here). As you are not hiding your agenda, I recommend an assault rifle with short barrel, preferrable HK or Steyr assault rifle 77. yak_kaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01143228437424040249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-73809858925162600882012-08-27T19:54:59.810+01:002012-08-27T19:54:59.810+01:00Very amusing. I could of done with hearing you spo...Very amusing. I could of done with hearing you spout your attack 15 years ago when I first came up against the horribly soft wall of Buddhist niceness. Instead I wandered alone, tolling in spiritual fields, searching for authentic human beings to cut the crap and get human. Luckily these days a sufficient number of alternative voices can be found on the Internet and they actually have very interesting things to say. How things have evolved since your wrote this.Matthew O'Connellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05163005257599649046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-60200482802553698932011-04-28T23:20:41.242+01:002011-04-28T23:20:41.242+01:00Yes, Most Recent Anon. There is no ugly side of Bu...Yes, Most Recent Anon. There is no ugly side of Buddhism, there are only ugly sides of false Buddhism.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-53295838075382879922010-12-14T14:22:21.677+00:002010-12-14T14:22:21.677+00:00there cannot be a ugly side of buddhism-------budd...there cannot be a ugly side of buddhism-------buddhism is for all times and the laws of the buddha are eternalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-457630479281467522010-07-28T14:29:15.015+01:002010-07-28T14:29:15.015+01:00I think any spiritual pursuit is not going to be a...I think any spiritual pursuit is not going to be all “rainbows and unicorns.” There will be terror and fear at some point, but also bliss. There is the Dark Night of the Soul and the wrathful deities, both representative of the difficulties of spiritual practices. Thanks for this. I think people have to understand that just because you want everything to be lovely and wonderful, it will not be, but that's why we meditate and why we practice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-81956276368846799362010-07-23T15:32:51.870+01:002010-07-23T15:32:51.870+01:00Nice post. I think the reason I gravitated to Cha...Nice post. I think the reason I gravitated to Charlotte Joko Beck's writing is that she isn't all about peaches and cream. Also Buddhism doesn't have the "everything is shiny" syndrome cornered. I've recently started doing yoga. Lots of sickening, looking only at the light b.s., with plastic smiles there also. -- KentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-26011506464613213752010-07-22T23:06:51.079+01:002010-07-22T23:06:51.079+01:00Thanks for your nice - gulp - comment, Kristen. R...Thanks for your nice - gulp - comment, Kristen. Really!<br /><br />Frank: I am playing with the problem that occurs when one complains about <i>nice</i>. It is a pervasive problem, and I could complain about some of my blogger friends in that, too [You know who you are! No, not you, Kyle.]<br /><br />The Dharma Wars problem persists because Tricycle takes the position of "Nice," and, like Kyle writes, the rest of life (and those that are resistant to Tricycle's charms) become "the other," to be dismissed, rejected, hated. It all devolves into something NOT Buddhist.<br /><br />And, yes, Jayarava, Buddhism in the West becomes enculturated to select that which is "in" and that which is out of fashion. Thus we are culturally protective and not in the middle, open to all things.<br /><br />Anyway. That is the realm of what's nettling me. I don't really know the specifics or answers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-66430296124671739192010-07-22T20:27:15.749+01:002010-07-22T20:27:15.749+01:00LOL :-) I though Dharma Wars had died down... I...LOL :-) I though Dharma Wars had died down... I'm sure James will be pleased you're taking up the cudgel again. <br /><br />Certainly the Buddha I read about was not a leftie liberal. He was all personal responsibility, self-reliance, hard work, discipline, and no excuses... traditional conservative values. And this shows in traditionally Buddhist cultures, don't you think?<br /><br />It's just that the Western left and counter-culture got hold of Buddhism first and have been staking it out, as their territory ever since. Bloody hippies!<br /><br />"Never trust a hippy" - John Lydon was my Elvis.<br /><br />Love and kisses<br />JayaravaJayaravahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815277098386812048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-73695441247938597702010-07-22T20:20:06.317+01:002010-07-22T20:20:06.317+01:00I think you are right, and we are seeing a new era...I think you are right, and we are seeing a new era of Buddhism here in the West. Nice is good sometimes, but life isn't always nice, life many times sucks the will of joy right out of us. Many in the Buddhablogosphere have been writing not only about the ugly side of life for quite sometime, but the ugly side of Buddhism too.<br /><br />This nitty gritty dirty sucky dukkha we all face is now starting to surface as something of an issue that is talked about in the mainstream. Rainbows and unicorns are wonderful, but tell me how I deal with the death of a loved one, or about the inappropriate teachers in the sangha's.<br /><br />Nice post!Kylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14925360776637168540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-20003049372971197702010-07-22T20:19:15.546+01:002010-07-22T20:19:15.546+01:00"disembowel with a chainsaw" and "p..."disembowel with a chainsaw" and "passes with an uzi"? i think you may need to reevaluate your position as being a "middle" position.Franknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043003269935490917.post-24183285849757490052010-07-22T18:17:59.834+01:002010-07-22T18:17:59.834+01:00Thank you, thank you. Awesome post. You have sta...Thank you, thank you. Awesome post. You have stated what I have been thinking. And so much better. And with snark!kt moxiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704051491887594074noreply@blogger.com