Buddha and Beyond?
No one has ever commented directly upon that essay, and I know why. Everyone who reads it agrees,... or no one reads it. Anyway, in the bathtub I got to pondering humanity’s problem (where else better?), and felt that we certainly don’t need another Sage, Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu, etc. After all, exterminate the sage, discard the wise, and the people will benefit a hundredfold… We need, as individuals, to accept who we are, rather than futilely aim for who we think we should be. Sooner or later each of us must realize this simply doesn’t work (although we usually seem to die before that happens). Without a foundation of self understand and acceptance, everything we do will have unforeseen consequences. Alas, being a social species and loving our movie stars, kings and other heroes, I guess another ‘prophet / sage’ awaits us in the wings.