“We Had to Destroy Buddhism in Order to Save It”

An editorial in The Guardian expresses concern about “Western Buddhism,” citing Zizek.

The argument goes something like: “Buddhism is okay. But as Stephen Batchelor argues, Eastern Buddhists believe a lot of strange things, like karma and reincarnation—and meditation. In order to wean people off of the opium that is Western Buddhism, we should personally edit the dharma.”

Newsflash: personally edited dharma IS “Western Buddhism.”

FAIL.

(Oh and I see he goes for the statue jugular...see my MLA talk. Classic Buddhaphobia. Only a wounded narcissist would beat up on narcissism like that.)