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OP, you have a point, in that the Buddha was anti-ritual. It's too easy to get attached to ritual for ritual's sake. But on the positive side, I think requiring 108 prayers, etc. can help build disci… (View Post)
OP, my take is, that they don't know what Enlightenment is. In the case of the people on the forum you described, they're mistaking a drug high with genuine Enlightenment, which is about non-attachme… (View Post)
OP, the Dalai Lama recently said, after meeting with victims of abusive lamas, and reading pages of written testimony they gave him describing the experiences and trauma each of them suffered, that t… (View Post)