[Buddha-l] Protestant Buddhists

[Joy Vriens]

>To me the very essence of spirituality is the freedom to fire a  
>spiritual guide who turns bad. Not to be able to rid oneself of a  
>dysfunctional guru, swami, lama or master is to be a character in a very bad  
>joke. This conviction, I realize, makes me deeply Protestant. (Maybe I would  
>have been more comfortable with Devadatta than with his cousin Gotama.) 

I sometimes think there is an act missing in the traditional twelve acts of a Buddha. The act of retiring and transfering leadership before the final act. The act of letting go of the raft and starting a small vegetable garden. Something like that.

Joy