Maybe Biased Blacklists are Not a Good Model of Buddhism

This article needs to be written, because I won’t stand for conservative religious zealots to claim ownership over a Buddhism I grew up understanding as compassionate and generous in spirit, where we make room for many paths of Buddhist practice that may differ from one’s own.

I tried to resolve this privately directly with Mr. Adak. I didn’t even mind that he leaves up the original post about me, but in the spirit of dialogue, especially among Buddhists, and in the spirit of the open forum that I thought Reddit should be, at least post my response in the comments. He refused, and not only that, but he’s actually censoring the comments section.

So here we are.

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