Making Shit Up

I hate to say it--well actually I don't--but almost all of what religion does or explains is just made up. Crappola. Nothing important or true or necessary is in it at all.

It's harder to see it with the older stuff written thousands of years ago. That ancient parchment and esoteric language makes things seem more important or sage. But the thing is, I look around at the "newer" religious models and I can pretty much guess how the old ones came about by extrapolation.

Historians have already documented the twists and turns that come about when trying to identify the origins of many old religious texts. At this point it's very clear that a lot of it is junk. Stuff written about gurus and saviors and buddhas, long after those very figures had turned to dust. People writing self-serving stuff to further a particular viewpoint or agenda.

When I read an essay by Genpo Roshi, Diane Musho Hamilton, Andrew Cohen, or some other new age guru--it's the same stuff. New names, new ideas, ridiculous theories expounding on nonsense with no basis in objective fact or truth.

And the very same can be said of the ground of Buddhism, the old tales of Zen Masters doing crap that is impossible. All kinds of stages and states and tall tales for folks to imagine that they are attaining. It really is mental garbage. It's a bunch of junk that should be thrown on the scrap heap. It's not useful, it's not sacred and it certainly isn't reality.

I am not sure why most people have so much difficulty seeing that these concepts, terms and supposed rules or truths are just made up crap. We've got great imaginations but when we start getting into chakras and healing channels and the oxherding stages and the different realms of devas and hungry ghosts and on and on....

Can anyone see that this is useless? Some apparently can. I don't quite understand the need to mentally masturbate to Dogen or Ashvagosha or Genpo Roshi or any of these clowns. Listen, it really is quite simple and putting names and concepts and ideas on top of what already is happening serves no purpose. Not only does it not allow us to talk about things properly, it just isn't even accurate at all. None of that stuff is happening. And I mean across the board, they are pretty much all full of shit.

There really isn't anything happening with your or me or our consciousnesses that fits those models at all. They are lies. There are not those attainments at all. What these people are writing about and trying to get you to live is actually fake. Bullshit.

That there is "something" amazing and wonderful happening is true. That we might be able to find something in our experience that is truthful and meaningful is real. And there may even be a technique or two of relevance, a way of approaching life that is helpful. A way of trying to be present to our own reality on a moment to moment basis. But none of the explanations are worth anything at all. In fact, they lead people further and further away from anything resembling reality. Further into their delusional fake models of a spiritual life that never existed for anybody.