Re. Feminism and Masculinity, the "Red Pill" Dudes Have Actually Swallowed the Same Blue Pill

"What if I told you both pills are blue?"

Whining About Feminism is Just as Toxic as Feminism.

Guys, if you want to get out from under the BS of Western media, the first thing you need to do is STOP BUYING INTO IT.

Let it all go.

It’s all bullshit.

You want to be a real, naturally grounded man?  Stop buying into the lies.  Notice I didn’t say “do the opposite of the lie,” I said get out entirely. 

You see, the “Red Pill” dudes, the “Men Going Their Own Way,” the angry anti-feminists, they’re all just as weak and pathetic as the guys who think they’re “woke” by handing their balls over to angry feminists. Because the problem isn’t that you’re on the wrong team, it’s that the ENTIRE GAME – the stadium, the crowds, the teams – DOESN’T EXIST in real life.

Real masculine grounded energy has NOTHING to do with artificial constructs like “patriarchy” or “feminism.”  It doesn’t care what some psycho wrote in Cosmo.  It couldn’t care less what you or anyone else thinks about Donald Trump.  It doesn’t run around trying to figure out “what women like,” or arguing with people about their opinions, or feeling angry or threatened because some socially maladjusted twit posted some screed from her computer.

I’ve seen a lot of guys who are “feminists” and “anti-feminists,” and basically they’re both different flavors of the same food:  pathetic sandwich.

If you aspire to being a man who stands in his own truth, who is grounded to his natural core, the first step is to STOP FOLLOWING THE ILLUSIONS OF OTHERS.  And “feminism” is an illusion.

Here’s a practice as an example.  Close your eyes, access stillness, and feel “feminism.”  Without thinking, without arguing, without reacting with anger or anything else, feel “feminism.”  What does it feel like?  Hot?  Cold?  Soft? Hard?

Yes, it’s a trick.  Because it DOESN’T ACTUALLY EXIST.  You can’t hold it or measure it.  It isn’t a song, it doesn’t sit in the breeze or float out in the distant universe.  You can’t call upon past or future lives to bring it to you.  IT ISN’T REAL – anywhere in the universe at any point in time.  Why?  BECAUSE IT IS AN EGO CONCEPT.

We do this with a lot of things.  The Ego tries to convince us it is real.  The Ego is actually a batch of neural pathways (so technically there is “something”) that sit in the brain and conceptualize our existence.  And along with this, we conceptualize a lot of other stuff that isn’t really there.

You think dolphins conceptualize patriarchy?  They may be aware that they exist and can die.  But no, dolphins don’t spend their time creating bullshit social constructs.  They also don’t hire coaches to teach them how to mate.  (And it appears dolphins actually do have sex for pleasure, like humans.  They just don’t have our BS hang-ups about it.)

Men in the West are trained to be afraid of women, afraid of the feminine.  It’s one thing to celebrate your masculinity, to be proud to be a man and what that means, and quite another to be afraid of women or of the feminine.  It’s not like this in every culture, but here in the West men are trained to be afraid of women. 

Men are afraid women think badly of them.  Afraid of women getting angry.  Afraid of feelings and emotions that might be considered “feminine.”  Afraid of Mom, afraid of their wives and girlfriends.  Afraid of everything woman.

And when you’re afraid of something, it owns you.  Why are so many Western men petrified little bitches when it comes to even talking to women they’re attracted to?  It’s that ingrained FEAR.  It shows up as passive fear, aggression, anger.  Even the whole “Red Pill” movement is based on fear.  As is the wimpy, supplicating “woke men” male feminist nonsense. It’s all fear – a society of wimpy men who don’t know how to deal with women, with the feminine.

I’m convinced that feminism was brought about because of Western men’s fear of women. It’s a mental disorder that manifested because the male fear of women started causing women to go crazy in response, and from that collective neurosis feminism was born.

I’m also convinced that 99% of our sexual disorders (including the really dysfunctional “normal Western sex life”) stem from this fear.  Men fear women, women respond and become neurotic.  Women become detached from their natural sexual response and expression.  Then we end up with this toxic non-orgasmic porn culture where women’s deep-seeded neurosis has led to their inability to naturally express and enjoy sex (which has in turn been defined as “normal”) while sexually objectifying themselves in ways that just make things worse and worse.

The sexual hang-ups men have also stem from fear of the feminine.  Homophobia comes from this, too (which only adds to the other problems above).

Again – other cultures where men aren’t afraid of women, women are much more connected to their orgasm.  Things that Western men are told “don’t work for women” work just fine.  Women are both more sexual, orgasmic and expressive and at the same time more modest, more careful about choosing partners, and not willing to debase themselves to satisfy some fear-based male fantasy.

In other words, men and our unnatural fear of women has fucked everything up and created all the monsters that are tormenting our lives.  Now we have feminism, distrust between the sexes, and really bad sex.  All these “issues” women have are a reflection of men’s inability to deal with this irrational fear of the feminine. 

Women aren’t born fucked up, but women are extremely adaptable and responsive, especially to men.  So if men (especially fathers) are carrying issues around women, she’ll catch those mental disorders like a virus and it fucks up her feminine expression.

This is why men like David Shade will advise men to “choose wisely,” citing “relationship to her father” as the #1 determinant of a woman’s sexual responsiveness. In other words, the less a woman is poisoned by the hang-ups of Western men, the easier it is for her to be extremely orgasmic.  He doesn’t say that last part, I connected those dots, and I’m not the first to do so.

To continue on that path a little longer, Western men are obsessed with the rational, logical mind, the ego. It’s good for some things, but when it comes to sex it sucks ass.  Western men have been given a lot of advice about “do this/ do that/ push here/ push there,” most of which focuses on the clit.  When a woman withdraws sexually, her body becomes less sensitive. This desensitization continues until only the clit (or even just a small part of the clit) is responsive, and then only with a lot of “work.”  But she wasn’t born this way, and it’s not “natural.”  Fucked up ego-driven society took away her naturally awakened feminine essence and replaced it with  rusty robot.  Then the same fucked up ego-driven world called that robot “normal” and “human.”

It dawned on me part of what Rion is doing with Natural Grounding is showing men what normal human feminine expression looks like.  And because it’s so rare in the West, it seems like Goddess energy or special or “awakened.”  I can tell you from personal observation backed up by that of many others that “awakened feminine” is actually “normal feminine.”  She’s made that way.  And as long as the men in her world don’t fuck it up by telling her there’s something wrong with being a woman, she’ll stay that way.  And she’ll go on to have a very happy and fully expressed sex life, regardless of whatever other problems she’ll have in her life.

If she senses at an early age that something is wrong, she’ll withdraw.  She doesn’t want to hurt men she cares about, so she’ll unconsciously hurt herself instead. 

And that fucked up ego-based fear is hurting men.  As long as you’re afraid of feminine polarity, you can’t access your full masculine polarity.  You become the walking mannequins we see all around – men controlled by their egos, unable to access their real masculine potential.  You become the wimpy, accommodating “nice guy,” or the posturing “aggro dude,” or the douchey “bro,” or the oppressive, insecure abusive man.  Or any combination of these.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.  We can un-learn all of these fears and hang-ups.  We can access a whole different plane of reality.  It’s a place where you’re a comfortable, grounded man, regardless of whatever other problems you have in life.  It’s a place where sex is easy, natural, very expressive and fun – because that’s how it naturally is and has been before we fucked it up with our egos.  You’ll have to let go of that limiting belief that it’s about you and your skillz and accept a higher truth that doesn’t serve your ego, but it’ll be a lot more enjoyable for you than some ego rush. 

Doesn’t that sound good?

The "Kavanaugh Ascension" and The Future of Masculinity

I’m still processing the energies from the Kavanaugh hearings, confirmation and after-effects.  This was a huge energetic tipping point and directly tied to the Ascension.  It’s far bigger than a political event.

I sense that’s why there was such a level of anger, fury, desperation and resistance from the corrupt progressive elements.  The Cabal is finally aware they are dying, that their power is slipping away and not coming back.  Progressive ideology in its current incarnation (the ties to Marxism, collectivism and repression of freedoms and thought expression) is on the downward side of the tipping point, and that tipping point was the Kavanaugh confirmation.

What we saw was the natural forces for freedom and truth that had been dormant wake up and fight back against the hysteria of feminists, cultural and economic Marxists, most of the news media and the forces of corruption and repression.  The largely silent and dormant forces were woken out of their slumber, both by the awakening energies and the shock of seeing the progressive agenda on full display.

What the progressives tried to do with Brett Kavanaugh is what they’ve been doing to people for a long time.  They’ve bullied social media, they’ve corrupted companies like Facebook and Google, they’ve corrupted the judicial process, they’ve corrupted universities.  They care only about power and control – they don’t care about life (thus the hysterical attachment to abortion), they hate God in any form, they despise truth and real Ascension (thus their hilarious hijacking of the term “woke,” even though they’re trying to force people to sleep), they despise concepts like due process and innocent until proven guilty.  They hate everything on the side of truth.  But people had a hard time seeing this until the full ugliness came out.

The cries and moans and insane depression at Kavanaugh’s confirmation is the progressives’ realization their ideology is in its death throes, and it’s never coming back.  Young people who initially embraced the ideology are rejecting it in droves.  They won’t be able to resurrect their agenda through judicial imposition.  They’ll fight – they might still win some elections – but deep down they know now what many of us have known for a while now :: the Cabal is energetically dead.

That’s not to say it isn’t still dangerous.  If you cut a rattlesnake in half it’ll die, but it can still strike.  

The dying forces can and will do a lot of damage on their way out.  Their actions will become more desperate, more violent and destructive until the life fully goes out.  So things are far from stable, but the trend is irreversible. 

That’s the situation as it stands.  But what specifically do I have to offer in the middle of all this?

And what comes to me is I have exactly that – the middle.

So I want to talk about a “middle way” for masculine development. 

There’s a lot of talk about the evolution of male-female dynamics.  I can’t really offer advice on the feminine side, except to say there is a “middle way” for women as well, but I’ll leave it to others to find that truth. (I have opinions and preferences, but they’re just that, and the world is full of opinions.)

I’m noticing more and more men who are consciously taking their development into their own hands.  Men who sense that their lives are not up to fate, but up to them.  Men who are not satisfied with how they are showing up and with their place in the world.

Men are sensing that society isn’t helping them develop their masculine core.  In fact, it’s dulling and weakening their masculine edge, and these men want more.  They want to find their strong, confident, bold embodiment and expression.

I’m also noticing there really aren’t good places for these men to go. 

There’s the gym and various physical “warrior training” modalities.  That’s okay at one level, but we all see the “gym guys” or “MMA guys” and they’re… off.  Something’s missing. 

Then there’s the PUA arena.  They help train men to be more successful at dating women.  The problem?  They don’t succeed at a very high level.  While pretty much 100% of men who go regularly to the gym or physical training modalities will see real success, the success rate for PUA training is considerably lower – around 25% - and more expensive. 

Granted, some of this is due to men not really trying to change their lot in life, but just dabbling.  But there are other problems too.  The entire industry is based on fear, anger and lack.  If not for a large supply of weak men with low self-esteem (who are also pretty desperate and not to discerning), the industry would die. But the industry is not interested in making men into, well, men.  It’s interested in making weak men into somewhat more attractive weak men.  (It’s all about the “funnel,” which is the opposite of upleveling one’s life.)

If you look at the conversations, the attitudes toward women are either adversarial, some form of frustrated anger, or detachment – they’re a means to an end.  And the end is usually social validation from other weak, angry, desperate men in the community.  Frustrated anger is not a healthy masculine edge.  Frustrated anger and the ability to attract women isn’t any better in the long run.

Throw on top of that a good physique built from the gym and you begin to see why a lot of men who are “successful PUAs” are kind of fucked up in life.  You’ve spent years developing your masculine body, and years more learning to get laid, only to find out you’re the same pathetic, weak loser guy you’ve always been, now with nowhere left to go.

Then there’s the, for lack of a better term, “wussy PUA.”  I got sucked into this branch myself pretty hard.  It sounds good – PUA is just about scoring, *WE* are about developing the WHOLE MAN.

Except it isn’t.

It’s about retaining the extreme feminist and cultural Marxist ideology.  There’s a lot of yoga and meditation and “non-judgment” in these modalities.  There’s a lot of talk about embodiment and “valuing women” and “real connection.”  They TALK about healthy masculine, but the funny thing is, you look around in these groups and there is none.

There’s a lot of soft men who feel at some level they need the approval of women – they need women to sign off on what they’re doing.  “Is it okay if we do this?”  “Please, women, tell us men what we’re doing wrong and what you want us to do.”  They talk about patriarchy and “toxic masculinity.”  They’re really big on pointing out what “average men” are doing wrong.  And the other message is “average men” are wrong.

There’s a lot of focus on embodiment and “owning your feelings,” instead of repressing them.  As long as those emotions are nice things like crying a lot and being weak, needy and vulnerable.  Yes, those are real emotions.  But so is anger.  So is aggression. 

There are many other issues with the “wussy PUA” modality.  Yes, it is possible to be weak and supplicating to women and be quite successful in dating.  These modalities seem to be curiously modeled after the cults of years past.  There’s a lot of reference to Osho – a Satanic cult leader and felon.  There’s a lot of approval of prostitution as positive self-expression and support for prostitution cults that are busted by the police.  There’s a LOT of approval of drug use.  In fact, good luck finding ANYONE in that modality who advocates against the use of marijuana or any other drugs. 

Nudism, polygamy, celebration of indiscriminate sexual connections under the guise of “opposing slut-shaming,” a general disapproval of jobs that actually pay the bills, a visceral opposition to the “nuclear family” and any organized religion that might cause people to question their selfish behavior.

You can bet that “getting a tattoo” will be part of the “ritual of masculinity.”  But you know what won’t be part of that “ritual?”  Actually becoming a man – a man with an edge, a man with a sense of responsibility, a man who doesn’t ask women if he’s being a man in an acceptable way.  There’s lots of yoga and Tantra and “getting in touch with your feelings” crap from the 60s hippie cults.  It’s marshmallow masculinity.

So men can be gym rats, angry bitter “red-pill” PUAs, wussy feminist yogas, or….

I called it “Middle Way,” but now that I think about it, it’s more “other way.”  Basically, don’t buy any of that crap.  They’re all trying to guide men under this failed cultural umbrella.  I look at other cultures and there’s a natural way.  And it can be developed.

The cultures where masculinity is strong men embrace their masculine polarity.  They’re MEN.  Not anti-women, not supplicating wussbags, but actual MEN standing in their own right. 

And in these cultures, not everything about men is met with approval by women.  And that’s the way it should be.  Men aren’t here to answer to women.  And despite the rhetoric, we all know women sure as heck don’t answer to men.  Women are intuitive and flexible and will RESPOND to men, but women do – and have always done – what they want in the end.

All this whining about “patriarchy” and “oppression” is BS.  It’s a lie.  Every household tells the truth – nobody’s telling women what to do.  If anything, it’s completely the other way around. The whining about “patriarchy” is a grasp for POLITICAL POWER and cultural hegemony.  Feminism is one big fat lie that will get men nowhere in life.  It’s BS worthless university professors pass around to justify having a job they know deep down inside is 100% useless.  They’re frauds, scared to death the world will figure out they are such and force them to get real jobs.  That’s why they scream so loud, to drown out the honest questions both from outside and in their own mind.

Natural masculinity embraces the polarity.  It has an edge.  It is naturally dominant.  It values competition and yes, fighting.  It values strength, courage, personal responsibility and protecting others. It cares for women, it doesn’t kowtow to women. It protects and provides.  And it elicits very strong, powerful, positive reactions from women.  It encourages women to embrace their natural polarity. 

In societies where men are naturally masculine, men and women are partners, not rivals.  Men also aren’t afraid of women.  Men stand in their own space and know their own worth.  Female disapproval is kind of a Western construct, but reality is different.

Yes, natural masculinity comes off a bit “macho.”  That’s a good thing, it’s self-esteem.  It’s not being afraid of your own strength and worth. Does it sometimes go overboard?  Yes.  Humans are imperfect. But at its essence it is strength and confidence at its core, and a healthy pride in being a man. Men – older men – are looked up to and admired. They’re an inspiration to boys growing up.  Fatherhood is highly valued and respected. 

Natural masculinity is not afraid to express desire for women, because he knows he is desirable.  He doesn’t “tone it down” or worry about offending her by being himself.  PUA – what’s that?  Yoga?  Get that shit out of here. 

Western men who travel around the world find that naturally masculine men tend to look down on them.  It’s not jealousy, it’s not “white privilege” or any of that BS.  They can sense most Western men aren’t “intact.”  Most Western men are weak and have disavowed their masculinity, or replaced it with a weird, disembodied form of angry aggression.  And naturally masculine men sense this and have no respect for this weakness. 

Something about the modern Western culture disconnects men.  Some of it is the overreliance on thinking and ego – a lack of embodiment.  Some is Western society’s constant attack on boys and men.  Some is Western society’s embrace of cultural Marxism and this bizarre concept of “equality,” which is the opposite of natural polarity.  A lot of it is just a Western society that’s too damn stressed and unhappy about everything.

I’ve said Natural Grounding won’t help much in dating by itself.  But it can serve as a valuable reference point for men to find that natural masculine center.  It takes more than videos, but it’s a start.  Energetic cleansing and attuning can help. So can a physical regimen that includes some form of competitive, “aggressive” action.  Yoga won’t really get you there, but competitive sports and contact/ sparring sports can.  Meditation by itself is passive and limited in effectiveness, but in the context of a larger process is helpful for clearing the thinking mind and de-stressing.

Over time, you can differentiate solid, grounded masculine polarity from its false counterparts. You can notice a weak man pretending to be strong, you can see the soft mushiness of the man who has neglected his core and the man who is operating from stress-induced and thought-induced anger instead of embodied natural aggressive energies.   You can spot the “spiritual man” who is strong in his “sky energy” but weak in his “earth masculine” (the “inverted pyramid”).

And you’ll begin to see how phony and deceitful the structures around you really are.  You’ll begin to see the difference between how the media portrays men and women and what’s really going on. You’ll begin to see that what women say they want and how they actually respond are completely different.  You won’t need some coach to tell you how to interact with women, because you’ll discover that being a naturally-grounded man is attractive to women.  You’ll find yourself acting different and separate from the old fears and illusions.  And you’ll begin to realize how rare that kind of man is in Western society (and if you travel, how common it is elsewhere).

Yes, it’s like taking a red pill and waking up from the illusion, but nothing like the weak, angry, ego-driven “Red Pill” men.  You’ll actually BE different, not arguing the point in online groups.  You’ll walk, talk, think, feel, behave – not like a man, but AS a man. 

A naturally grounded man can acknowledge that feminism exists – and that it’s a joke.  That the whole political and media circus is an illusion.  None of it is real.  And I say naturally grounded as in aligned with your true human masculine nature, it’s not the same thing as what Rion is doing.  His stuff can help, but 95% of the work is going to be you – completely separate from any coaching or training stuff – shedding the false structures on your own.

And as you start feeling more of your natural core, you might sense some sadness and regret.  A lot of men in this world grow up being that natural man, they don’t get misled by some Western illusion. Maybe you’ll begin sensing that and feel regret and resentment for the good years that were cheated from you. That’s also a natural feeling – if you get released from prison after having done nothing wrong, you’ll value your freedom but also feel very restful for being put in there. While working to right the wrongs of society is important (I’ve taken a much more active stance when it comes to politics and the media precisely because of this) it’s also important to look forward and not spend too much time looking of your shoulder at what could have and should have been.

And finally, becoming a naturally grounded man will not make you a world-class ladies man.  It will put you where you need to be (if you follow your heart).  And for most men, that’s not a ladies man.  You’ll have freedom and access, but you’ll also find your place where you really belong.  And for a lot of men (the huge majority), that’s as the head of a healthy family. 

So if this ends up leading you to “marriage and children,” that doesn’t mean you did something wrong.  It probably means you did something right.  (Assuming you actually grew through the process and this is a conscious decision based on what you see as best for you and the greater good.)  A lot of coaches seem to look down on marriage, which is too bad.  There’s nothing noble about being single and dating a lot of women.  It’s one option.  It comes with positives and negatives.  It’s a possibility, not a goal.  Remember, a lot of good men have laid down their lives to protect their families.  Not too many will make that sacrifice to protect their right to stay single.  Something to think about.

Walking Away from Cal - Been a Great Decision

Years ago – early 1990s – I became a passionate Cal football fan.  Before that I was a pretty passionate college football fan, but for another team. I Cal football with open arms, attending every game as a student and many as an alum.  I paid for premium cable TV to get the games I couldn’t see in person.  I blocked out the time, and I blocked out more time to deal with the emotional ups and downs.

In some sense, it just wasn’t a healthy habit.  But it was also a source of happiness and camaraderie.  But over time things changed.  Cal had some really good years under Jeff Tedford, then undermined him for several more years, then fired him, then replaced him with two coaches about at the level of Tedford’s predecessor.

At this point, I don’t care about Cal football.  I still follow it somewhat, because I like college football in general, but I’ve given up on Cal football.  I’ve completely lost my passion.  Because it’s become clear in the long run things will never change.

Cal will never be a quality football program.  They might have a good year here and there, but they will mostly be mediocre at best.  This is what the powers that be at Cal want.  They don’t want real success.  There’s no point in hoping for better, it is what it is. 

Cal as an institution has become a cesspool of progressive politics.  It’s always been liberal, but now it’s taken on a fascist component.  The law school has devolved into mind programming.  Robert Reich is considered an economist there.  What used to be a very liberal school that put academics first is now a mind-control institution that insists on political hegemony.  It’s very difficult to root for a football team that is the public face of such a corrupt institution.

The university itself has slid from being one of the top-ranked schools in the world to now being ranked far below USC and below UCLA.  It’s squandered its reputation and become mediocre.  In fact, taking away what little reputation it still holds as a academic institution, the rankings go even further down.  It’s gone from being a bargain to being overpriced and poor quality for the effort to get in. The degree carries no weight in the business community anymore. 

Basically, I’ve been pouring energy into rooting for a football team that has gone nowhere that represents a university that’s gone steadily backward for the nearly thirty years I’ve been involved. And at this point, I have nothing but regret for the time and energy I’ve expended.

So I’ve probably swung the other way, into a form of resentment.  And I do feel cheated.  I gave a lot to this university and it’s squandered it.  My degree used to be worth something and it’s gone down steadily in value since I attained it.  The football team ebbs and flows between mediocre and really bad.  The students and alumni are increasingly shrill, extreme, and really an embarrassment to call fellow Cal Bears.  The whole Bay Area has been corrupted and lost all its charm.

So yah, I’m resentful.  But mostly disappointed.  The reality of the situation has hit me – things are not going to get better.  The team will always be mediocre at best.  The school will continue to slide downhill.  The Bay Area is not going to get better.  So I’ve given up, because I’ve taken off the blinders and see reality. 

This is the first football season where I don’t care if the team wins or loses.  Really don’t.  And I don’t care that I don’t care.  And I have to say, freeing up that space feels really good. I like having my Saturdays back in the fall.  I like not thinking about Cal, and not fighting the inevitable, which I can’t change anyhow.

And being a Cal fan is passive and disempowering anyhow. Ditching Cal sports fandom has made me a better person all the way around.  Looking at that time I was a passionate fan as wasted time is actually a good thing.  It encourages me to find other places where I’m wasting energy in a similar way. I save money – no more cable TV, no more game expenses.  Less stress.  Far less consumption of beer – a very good development. 

Bottom line, being a Cal fan was an unhealthy habit, the equivalent of smoking.  Getting rid of it has added years to my life.  Letting go of my connection to Cal is similar – healthy, revitalizing.  And it turns out I was hiding from boredom.  Boredom is nothing to hide from – face it head-on and make real changes to be a better person.  Hiding in passive things like sports fandom is an escape and probably masking bigger issues.  Better to just be bored and work through it honestly.

So long, Cal.  You won’t be missed. This is my #CalExit

Yes, Westerners, Buddhists ARE "Judgmental." And You Should Be, Too.

It’s been a fun time over on Twitter.  The place has never been known for intelligent conversation, but it seems the dregs of low-intelligence have found me and thought they could somehow silence me with their corrupted Western interpretation of Buddhism.

Basically it goes like this:  “You have a sense of right and wrong.  That makes you judgmental.  Which makes you a bad Buddhist because Buddhists are non-judgmental.”

First point, yes.  Second point, duh.  And third… LOL, 100% fail.

The core of Buddhism is right thought, right action.  So BY DEFINITION, following Buddhist teachings REQUIRES judgment.  That means to be a “good Buddhist” one HAS to exercise judgment.  In other words, one MUST be “judgmental.”

You see, in order to have right thoughts and right actions, one must be able to discern right from not right (also known as “wrong”).  This process of discerning right from wrong is commonly referred to in the English language as…

 

…wait for it…

JUDGMENT.

Whew.  Okay, now that we’ve covered a review of “English words we learned in the fourth grade,” let’s get to the meat of the matter – the corruption of Buddhism in the West by leftist idiots.

Because “Buddhism is about non-judgment” is NOT a tenant of Buddhism.  Real Buddhism, as it is practiced by real Buddhists in the East who actually base their lives by its standards, is ALL about judgment.  Right and wrong is a big part of Buddhism.  Morality is an essential element.  Being a good person, accountability for wrongdoing, karma, moral responsibility, good versus evil – these are basic foundational aspects of Buddhism.  In Buddhist countries there’s a LOT of judgment of people and bad behavior – how else do you educate people about right and wrong if you don’t point out examples of each?

Nobody in the East would agree with the statement “Buddhism is about non-judgment.”  Things like marital infidelity, murder, lying, stealing, slander – these are judged harshly, more so than in the West.  Heck, disrespecting the King of Thailand is judged – and comes with a stiff prison sentence.  Saying Buddhists are non-judgmental is like me saying my cat is a vegan – it’s hilariously false and an obvious projection of one’s own belief system upon a system that’s in complete disagreement with your personal opinions.

Yet somehow stupid white leftists convinced ignorant people in the West that Buddhism is about “not judging people.”  No, WESTERN LEFTISM is about “not judging people.”  Or more accurately, “don’t make me feel bad for what I want to do, but I’ll go ahead and judge anyone I want.”  It’s shameless hypocrisy (which incidentally is also looked down upon in Eastern culture).  Western leftists adopted Buddhism (as in, they appropriated images of Buddha and kinda sorta took up meditation) and rebranded it to conform to their “do whatever you want” hippie attitude.

But 60’s Hippie BS and Buddhism are not in agreement.  In fact, a lot of Thai Buddhists are sick and tired of Western hippies using Buddhist relics as decorations and flagrantly misinterpreting Sutra for their own selfish benefit.  All over Thailand there are billboards telling stupid Westerners to knock it off. Yet over here, calling oneself a Buddhist and stating a strong opinion elicits the usual ignorant response from the Hippies about “non-judgmental” Buddhists.

Let’s be clear on what being “non-judgmental” means, because it’s not noble or holy in any way.  People who take their religion seriously understand that morality is a fundamental aspect of religion.  Christians who believe in Christ’s redemption understand they must also adhere to his moral teachings.  Same for every religion, and Buddhism is no different in this respect.

One cannot accept some parts of Buddhism while cutting out the moral requirements any more than one can live without a heart.  Western bastardization of Buddhism to exclude the moral requirements is an abomination to Buddhists throughout the world.  It’s a huge insult. Carrying on sex parties with your head of Buddha looking on is shameful and deeply offensive to anyone who takes the religion to heart.  And if hearing this makes you feel bad, then good.  That’s your conscience telling you to knock it off and behave better. 

Instead of telling others to “stop being judgmental,” try listening to that voice that’s making you feel bad when people point out your bad behavior.  That’s your better self telling you to grow up and be a better human being.  Instead of drowning it out by attacking good, moral people and their religions, try LISTNING to your conscience and being a more morally upright person.  You won’t always “feel better,” but you will BE better, because you’ll behave better.

Right thoughts.  Right actions.  Stop throwing away your moral compass, it’s there for a reason.  And stop telling people to be “non-judgmental,” if anything we need MORE people using good judgment for the benefit of others.