Monday, November 16, 2009

BS Disclaimer

In an interesting article in the current issue of Tricycle Magazine called "Dharma Wars," one particular quote was considered important enough to merit a cloud of it's own and large bold lettering.

Anybody with a keyboard is instantly allowed to
present whatever they've pulled out of their butt
as if it were the dharma.


I agree wholeheartedly, and accept that everything you read online should be suspect until you can verify reasons allowing you to believe it. And that includes this blog. I once considered calling my blog "Essentially Nothing... Conversations With Myself," but assumed no one would read it but me so left off that last part. It started off as just a fun hobby, then morphed into a place where i could continue my journal entries about the pilgrimage on Shikoku Island, and has since gotten out of hand and drifted into completely uncharted waters as well.

That being the case, i warn anyone who reads my words — i write under the name Lao Bendan not because i think it is a cute and snappy name, but because i happen to think that is true. So, don't believe anything i say out of hand. If you can't verify it in your life, consider it bull shit.

With that said,....
DHS 5/100



P.S., Lao Bendan = Stupid Old Man.

2 comments:

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I follow your blog regularly and i never found it stupid. I saw many videos on meditation and lectures on spiritualism. It is too interesting. Keep posting good stuff.

Lao Bendan said...

Thanks. But, the point of the magazine article was that "interesting" and "accurate" are not always one and the same thing. Just make sure you're chewing on the wheat and not the chaff before you actually swallow. :-)