The Death of Buddha
Posted: December 20th, 2004, 4:15 am
Freud killed the Buddha.
or more precisely, so as not to portray Sigmund as a practicioner of rinzai zen, psychoanalysis ruins eastern religion (as it does romantic love, as it does humanism, as it does existentialism, as it does economics). religion becomes at best sublimation, more probably regression to infantile state.
Thus to follow the Four Noble Truths to their ignobilities:
1b. Life is suffering
can remain
1f. Life is suffering.
2b. The cause of this is desire.
becomes
2f. The cause of this is unfulfilled desire and guilt.
3b. Desire can be overcome.
Becomes
3f. Dissatisfaction cannot ultimately be overcome (or more exactly, it can in theory, but not for most people in the present social order which cannot realistically be improved).
4b. The way to do this is the Eightfold Path.
Becomes
4f. But you might as well at least try and make things better, by paying for intensive psychoanalysis, which ensures the therapist toward a Six-Digit Salary.
or more precisely, so as not to portray Sigmund as a practicioner of rinzai zen, psychoanalysis ruins eastern religion (as it does romantic love, as it does humanism, as it does existentialism, as it does economics). religion becomes at best sublimation, more probably regression to infantile state.
Thus to follow the Four Noble Truths to their ignobilities:
1b. Life is suffering
can remain
1f. Life is suffering.
2b. The cause of this is desire.
becomes
2f. The cause of this is unfulfilled desire and guilt.
3b. Desire can be overcome.
Becomes
3f. Dissatisfaction cannot ultimately be overcome (or more exactly, it can in theory, but not for most people in the present social order which cannot realistically be improved).
4b. The way to do this is the Eightfold Path.
Becomes
4f. But you might as well at least try and make things better, by paying for intensive psychoanalysis, which ensures the therapist toward a Six-Digit Salary.