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Buddhism

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joshisaurous

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6. I noticed something,
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 02:28 AM
Jun 2015

there are an excess of "meditation" classes where the idea is that a head honcho goes on about their "insights" that dance around Buddhist teachings like a washed up actor trying to boost their reputation by lurking near important people at social functions, in the hope they will be captured with them in a photo.

I don't see anything Buddhist about this article.
It's written in the typical self help book style of dragging on with stories about the results that frustrates intelligent readers who realize the lack of meaningful content.

This thing where a person glorifies themselves is absent in real Buddhism.
The emphasis at Buddhist teachings is the Buddha's teachings, not some charismatic personality and their convoluted psychoanalysis of the people they use as props in their show.

I'm just saying this because this is a Buddhist group.
The rambling article may be useful for some despite its mistaken attribution to Buddhism.

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