Resisting the Drift

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The Eightfold Path in a Modern World

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Sarah Barker
Mar 12, 2025
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Image by ImageFX. Prompt: “A person is lost and adrift on a raft”

Buddhism in the West has drifted.

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Meditation has become a commodity, mindfulness a marketing term, and the Dhamma a buffet where people pick and choose what suits their preferences while discarding the rest. The Eightfold Path—the actual structure of practice—has been chopped up, diluted, a…

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