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Lets try to keep any criticism we have to the ideas or approach and avoid critiquing Jundo as a person. We really don't know all that much about him.

The problem seems to be Jundo's presentation in the OP than anything about the money.

If it was going to be used as a fund-raiser, he should have led with that and not some egregious overstatement. In fact, "Buddhism Has Failed" should have been toned way down, otherwise it sounds like a bush-league, liberal pundit, you-tuber, trying to get attention for his videos and monetizing his channel. A real turn-off.

I wish Jundo the best of luck on his book. Maybe, after I get rid of the bad taste in my mouth, I'll buy a copy.

The arrogance of the man astounds me actually, 2500 years and all the various traditions and methods casually consigned to the bin as a “failure” but don’t worry buy this book and it’ll be fine.

Odd. Reminiscent of an American evangelist. Slightly scary.

@Jundo said:
It is time to begin exploration of technology and the laboratory, medicine, biology, engineering, nanotech, genetics and coming advances in neuro-science.

I watched the video, and it is unclear to me how these things are going to influence the billions of humans. The USA is home to about 350 million people, the European Union to about 550 million. China has about 1.4 billion people, India about 1.3 billion, out of a total world population of 8.1 billion people.

New technology doesn’t move so quickly towards the billions. There are still people to whom a smartphone is new, and it has spread like wildfire, being the first computer that many people own.
54% of the world owns a smartphone.

You could follow the road of politics. In the successful Trump election campaign of 2016 he made use of Cambridge Analytica to find the psychological levers which motivate people to vote a particular way. They profiled 50 million Americans from Facebook data.

Would you want to “persuade” all these people to take up Dharma?

@Jundo said:

100% of the proceeds will go to Buddhist and other charities, nothing to me. I would never sell Dharma.

I don't care about the money from the book. You're still trying to sell it. You're selling Dharma. You just aren't keeping the money. My guru earns his living from his books. What he doesn't keep are the annual offerings made by his centers and the national organization. He sends the checks back. I don't care if you keep the money or not, Jundo. I care about seeing things for what they are, and you sir, are, for whatever reason, trying to sell a book.

Good luck :-)

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