June 29, 2025

Buddhism makes a thing about non-duality. Taoism makes a thing about Yin/Yang. Zen is more Taoist than Buddhism is, yet Zen-Buddhism is a Buddhist thing. Buddhism is the most self-contradictory religion I have ever met. Which makes it the most encased in denial religion I have ever met, and yet, get this, 
 Buddhism is all about enlightenment. Have I succeeded in making an airtight case for Buddhism as the most contradictory and denial-based religion in the history of religion?

My fundamental complaint about all religions is the way they all are founded on their denial of projection. They all make outlandish statements that require belief as rock-solid truth, and every statement ever that requires belief is not grounded on factual evidence, but on projection. Projection is declaring something to be so that we, or someone, has made up and declared to be so. And that is the foundation of every religion. And, it is denied by every religion.

So, I recommend speculation and inquiry along Gnostic lines that connect us with our intuition and inner-knowing capabilities as being worthy of our time in finding our way to knowing what is called for in each situation as it arises and what needs to be done about it, when, where and how it needs to be done. Which is all the religion that anyone needs. This religion is centered, not on the God of theology, but on "That Which Has Always Been  Called God"--and is the Mystery at the heart of life and being.