The Pseudo-intellectual Side-step

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Tips on Meditation and the Spiritual path - idea #193
from your Buddhism expert



Hey kids, there’s a new dance step. It’s called the
Pseudo-intellectual Side-step and with it you can
avoid doing anything you fear or find distasteful,
while appearing wise, sincere and spiritual, to
the truly dim-witted.





Of course this begs the question, “Hey, what more
important to you: what you are or what you appear
to be?” If you are more concerned with the opinion
of the slack-jaw, gap-toothed, mouth-breathing,
knuckle-dragers that we call the mass of humanity,
then the Pseudo-intellectual Side-step could be
for you.





But how do you perform this tragic time-waster?
Easy! FIRST: identify what it is that you don’t
want to do. For instance, some folks dread the
thought of abandoning their attachments. They
sincerely feel that it would involve far too much
effort, pain, fear and loss.


SECOND: figure out how you wish to be perceived.
Many feel it is more important to be perceived as
wise, sincere and enthusiastic {yet careful} than
to actually possess those qualities.


THIRD: contrive a rouse to convince others {and
perhaps even yourself} that you possess those
attributes, without taking any spiritually
productive action. Hey, what you could do is go to
a Buddhist chat room and ask questions that could
make you sound wise, sincere and enthusiastic {yet
careful} but that in reality fail to call you
{or anyone else} to the specific action required
to actually apply Buddha’s teachings.


FOURTH: wallow in the respect of the fools who’s
opinion you so value.





Or you could hit the Breaks and reevaluate the cost
of dealing with attachment, the Buddha’s way. Does
it really have to create fear, drudgery, pain and
loss? We’ll explore that tomorrow.


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Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika



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