No New Religion: I Rescind My Appeal

The first entry in this blog was entitled, "A New Religion for the West", and it was an appeal for just that. Some time has passed since I wrote it, and my philosophy has changed. Now I think that religion should be done away with entirely.

The goal of religion should be to illuminate spiritual truth. I see now that religion can never achieve this end. I say this because I understand spiritual truth from direct experience, and I can say with certainty that religion, like any other concept serves only to obscure truth. Even these words are obscuring truth.

Ultimately no instruction can initiate wisdom. No religion, no science and no philosophy. Throw them away. Don't read another self help book: it won't help you. Advanced yoga poses won't help you. Tai Chi won't help you. Krishnamurti or Krishna or Jesus cannot help you. Offerings of Fanta and oranges will not help you. Getting a doctorate in psychology won't help you, and it won't help you to pay for session from somebody who does.

Don't even meditate. Don't do anything. Wisdom is always here, it's just hidden by all of the shit that is going on in the mind.

You can find wisdom, but you cannot figure it out. If you are trying to understand how to stop suffering, then stop it. The trying to understand is creating the suffering. Religion is built on trying to understand suffering. There are millions of Buddhist monks in the world, who have dedicated their lives to getting enlightened and they never will. Their first problem is that they are trying to get enlightened. Their second problem is that they are Buddhists. No Buddhist was ever enlightened. No Buddhist ever will be enlightened. For one thing, no one gets enlightened. The world gets enlightened and the "one" disappears. Then there is just a guy with a shaved head in an orange robe, staring stupidly with a grin on his face.

SO, I rescind my appeal for a new religion. Any new religion or philosophy, or thing that sits between will probably do just as much harm as good. Drop the religion you have. If you're an atheist, drop your atheism. Drop all the stupid insubstantial ideas that you cling to to define yourself. And if it makes you feel sad or depressed, drop that shit too, and then you will be getting somewhere.