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Category Archives: Buddhism
Decoding The West’s Infatuation With Buddhism
ChatGPT says: The West’s infatuation with Buddhism is not a conversion pattern. It is a low-cost status and identity accessory. Western societies already have dense institutions, legal systems, and moral languages. They do not need Buddhism to coordinate behavior or … Continue reading
‘The Limits Of Eastern Wisdom’
Will Storr writes: “Buddhism is a status game. The better the monks play at the game of Buddhism, the higher they climb, the greater their rewards. The reason we don’t think of it as a status game is because of … Continue reading
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LAT Reporter Named ‘Bengali’ Critical Of Buddhist Monk Critical Of Bengalis
Shashank Bengali writes for the Los Angeles Times: He’s been described as the “Buddhist Bin Laden,” but Ashin Wirathu thinks he has more in common with the world’s most famous fictional spy. “James Bond is a nationalist,” the cherub-faced monk … Continue reading
Yisroel Pensack: Leonard Cohen Should Have Been In Shul For Rosh Hashanah
The next time you want to persuade your friends or your kids to go to shul on Rosh Hashanah, you can tell them what happened to singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen on Friday. According to a Reuters report in The New York … Continue reading
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Searching For The Big O
This sounds a lot like morning services at my yoga center: At 7 a.m. each day, as the rest of America is eating Cheerios or trying to face gridlock without hyperventilating, about a dozen women, naked from the waist down, … Continue reading
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Tagged dozen women, hyperventilating, jewish couples, orthodox jew, orthodox judaism, sexual adventure, venerable history, waist down, yoga center, zen community
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