I
think it’s necessary to continue the previous article We should not make
publicity to nonBuddhist holidays or the gods and spirits they represent
with a new one in which to explain even more why I think that promoting
nonBuddhist holidays, symbols and so-called “divine figures” associated with
them is creating a subtle obstacle for other people’s encounter with the true
teaching of Buddhism. Many nowadays Buddhists and especially teachers or
aspiring teachers suffer from the illness of political correctness, combined
with an incapacity to use what they already have in Buddhism to promote its
teachings. They are blind for subtle dangers and are unable to raise themselves
above the ideologies or habits of their time and so they support some things
just because the majority do it and it’s nice (and “compas...