I was reading Hillman's "Blue Fire" today. I really love Hillman.
He compares meditators to terrorists and nihlists. (My apologies to my actual Buddhist friends - I don't think he was aiming this at you. I think this is for all the fake buddhists out there....)
"I saw the present cults of meditation not so gentle, not so hamless as they like to be, but as a viscious bunch of totalitarians. They can't see the individual --- which you see only if you look for soul, look with soul. They cant see an individual person, let alone an individual thing. And the terrorist shooting a man coming out of his front door, shooting him in the knees is not seeing that man at all. He is in his spirtual meditation....."
I laughed out loud. I could never ever explain to anyone before why I dont like this whole "we are all one" conscioussness. Every time I have tried to explain it, some snotty asshole has condescendingly retorted that it is because I am "overly attached to my ego" - with all the insufferable superiority of the newly converted, who really haven't clearly thought through the dogma they have been fed.
The other allegation is that I am afraid of death. In my opinion, that is a sign of sanity and good mental health. Hell yes, I am afraid of death, and anyone who is not afraid of death has already died. Or is lying. Or is simply stupid. Or is in such pain that ANTHING else is preferable.
I am not all that eager to go to the "great oneness" - I like it here, I like being me - and whether there is a 'great beyond', 'the fires of hell', or another 'go around on the wheel of life' - I'm busy having this one right now, thank you. Hell yes,I am attached to my ego. And my soul. And my spirit.
That attachement is what makes us human. So, go into the great oneness if you want. I plan on sticking around here with my imperfect soul, spirit, and ego
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