Talkin’ ’bout my generation
Salon.com has just featured a story on the ‘new phenomenon’ of gasp, horrors, egads… YOUNG BUDDHISTS.
Buddhists gone wild, we are off thumbing our non-existent noses, sitting slumped in wilted lotus positions and treading ever so close to nihilism.
All jesting aside, I’m happy to see the coverage of the ‘underground Buddhist brethren’ in this magazine but do wish that more consideration would have been taken to the amount of commitment, renunciation, study and work that our generation of young Buddhists puts into our practice. It’s not about all of us, in our trucker hats and ironic-logo t-shirts going off to loft spaces or yoga studios and listening to cool people talk about ‘gettin’ jiggy with Nagarjuna’ and then going off to drink our livers blotto and feel accomplished that we are ‘Buddhist’.
There is waaay more to it than this and I would have liked to see the article focus a wee bit more on the dedication of todays young Buddhists who are inheriting this tradition.
Sincere thanks to Noah, Ethan & his crew, Brad, Sumi, The Buddhist Geeks and all of the post-Boomer Buddhists who are making a difference in helping to define the path going forward.
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