Is todays American Buddhism tribal and myopic?

My answer to a subject which titles this essay is a resounding YES, though you lift a issue, not to cover up Caesar or castigate Brutus -- though you WILL get a castigating swat or two in prior to this blogpost is through, judgmental pundit which you am -- though to lift a discussion.

Buddhism isnt about usually those of us which claim a nomination of Buddhist, though about a business of everyone. Its not as if you were all Hawaiians as good as a discussions were about a archipelago where you live, as good as things narrowly pertaining to weuns,the surfing, hotel government as good as telling tourists about what it's similar to living tighten to a volcano.

I contention which Buddhism is about suffering. And, you contention which pang is universal, endured by all humans solely a scant few with a vaulting pole in their conduct or in a far-advanced stage of dementia. And which pang is a business which waylays cows as good as dogs as good as squirrels from time-to-time as good as a thousand alternative class of a fellow traveller animals upon this big blue whirling planet. Doesnt a regard reach out to all of them?

Just as large air pollution which emanates from here in a US affects a world, pang all over a universe HAS TO start us, involve us as good as regard us. And yet, American Buddhists interests in a universe [at least, when wesee ourselves in a slight category ofAmerican Buddhist isfocused upon Tibet, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand as good as alternative nations which have poignant Buddhist populations. Why is this?

Is a business of a Buddhist pang of a different sequence of misery which you should preference it during removing a penetrating attention, as against to a misery of non-Buddhists? Basically, have been you all here only to look after a tribe? Is a devout majority which ill-advanced? In alternative words: Are you all only yahoos (in a Swiftian! , not on line, sense) upon this freakin careless train you callearth?

Our magazines as good as a little of a buddhoblogs which plead issues of worldwide stress talk about Buddhism, as good they should as good as must, though not in a context of pang soldiers In Afghanistan nearby Pakistan. Why is that? JUST since there have been no Buddhists to support a story?

Sebastian Junger wrote this extensive book, WAR, which ventures distant afield to a place where power as good as fright as good as bravery have been most extreme. Isnt Buddhism there, no make a difference which self-proclaimed Buddhists arent? Shouldnt a farthest places be within a reach -- from a heights of heaven to a pits of hell?

Must you go to India or Nepal to find Buddhism? Dont you consider a fount of Buddhism is already tighten by, as good as if you dont know which it is tighten by as good as everywhere [and not especially so in those "special" places], havent you mislaid it?Thank you from a Progressive Buddhism bloggers