After taking up Vipassana meditation, I became more and more interested in Buddhism. I read many books on the subject. By 2006 I was ready to declare myself a Buddhist. Come 2022 I became a lapsed Buddhist. I was increasingly aware of how radically Western liberals had edited Buddhism—they had added secular Protestant morality, worshiped antiracism, anti sexism, opposed authority, believed in the cults of the individual, etc. With the rise of “woke” politics I gave up on all this self-righteous, self-interested and un-self-aware nonsense.
