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Buddhist Boot Camp

vixthenomadvixthenomad
edited September 2011 in Buddhism Today
Modern Buddhism...has it really come to this?

http://www.buddhistbootcamp.com/2011/08/morning-resolve-daily-meditation.html

It puts me in mind of what you might get if Buddhism and Christianity were people and you genetically spliced them.

*shudders*

Comments

  • tbuntontbunton
    weird.
    in the video the guy has a creepy voice.
  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    Drop and give me 108 prostrations NOW, SOLDIER!

    Hm.

  • cazcaz Veteran United Kingdom Veteran
    Rule 27: When a Buddhist site makes a comparison with God or uses that on the front page there maybe something wrong with the message they are sharing, Futher investigation is required.
  • jupitermadcatjupitermadcat
    yikes!
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    I may now very well and truly have seen *everything*...
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    What scares me is how many commentators there are telling him how wonderful he is. (I say 'he' because I assume that the guy with his hands together looking all faux-holy is the author of the site.)

    The only day I become an 'instrument of peace' will be the day I am reborn as a set of pan pipes.

  • YishaiYishai Veteran
    It's more universalist than buddhist. Ah well.
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    I've looked into universal unitarianism and I just can't take it seriously. No offence meant to anyone who practises in this way - it just smacks of 'no religion' to me. Which is an acceptable way to live your life without labelling it as something else.
  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    As someone who tried UU-ism for several months (roughly ten years ago), I can't help but concur, Vix. Nice people, certainly, but at bottom, its just an "I'm-OK--you're-OK" feel-good routine. I felt an implicit smugness about how politically correct they were (and I'm a real far-to-the-left kind of a guy!).

    I felt because they were TOO preoccupied with not stepping on anyone's toes. There was no "spiritual traction" to be found.
  • YishaiYishai Veteran
    We can't be wrong if we believe in everything!
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    We can't be wrong if we believe in everything!
    Nothing wrong with being wrong!

  • YishaiYishai Veteran
    Is it okay to be peeved that some person is misrepresenting Buddhism?
  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    Besides, even within ONE religious tradition there is diversity-- no one religion is monolithic (including Buddhism), and never has been.
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    Is it okay to be peeved that some person is misrepresenting Buddhism?
    I wasn't peeved - I actually found it funny, in a 'dark humour' sort of way.
    Besides, even within ONE religious tradition there is diversity-- no one religion is monolithic (including Buddhism), and never has been.
    Diversity is one thing. But in order to be diverse you have to have something to diversify FROM, and I have to confess I couldn't see what exactly that something was in this guy's case.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    As someone who tried UU-ism for several months (roughly ten years ago), I can't help but concur, Vix. Nice people, certainly, but at bottom, its just an "I'm-OK--you're-OK" feel-good routine. I felt an implicit smugness about how politically correct they were (and I'm a real far-to-the-left kind of a guy!).

    I felt because they were TOO preoccupied with not stepping on anyone's toes. There was no "spiritual traction" to be found.
    My experience precisely (and around the same time too). They form a committee to discuss forming committees :)
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