The Pathless Path

My Brother AXE finds the Dalai Lama joining the Defeatist ranks, honorarily at least, temporarily at worst. Interestingly, to me anyway, the Dalai's comments are awfully dao ke dao, ironically since that sort of, uh, mindful acceptance, AKA defeatism, is rather more Zen than Tibetan.

Of course, I am drawn to this philosophy as espoused. My interest in the transcendent value of abstention stems from a deeply held disinclination to trying to impose my will, so to speak, on others. Curiously enough, this appears to be a more controversial personal affect than its opposite: the constant need to tell people what to do.