Some New Agers (and Neo-pagans or Wiccans, too) borrow words like Karma - and reinterpret them incorrectly - from buddhists and leave the important contexts out.
Buddha said "Samsara has suffering". ITS HIS FIRST NOBLE TRUTH. It doesn't say you suck or are a "toxic" person becuase you hurt.
That's just the beginning of what some the New Age ignore in order to be feeling smugly superior over other people. If they don't get part one, you know they don't get any other part. I read the article, read the mention of buddhism, and saw the New Age complaints, and was like "oh great, another person who probably read Surya Das". Because like there's plenty of buddhists who teach buddhism (which s/he clearly as not learning), but there was also lots of new age writers who pretended to teach buddhism a few years back when it was the fad going around.
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Buddha said "Samsara has suffering". ITS HIS FIRST NOBLE TRUTH. It doesn't say you suck or are a "toxic" person becuase you hurt.
That's just the beginning of what some the New Age ignore in order to be feeling smugly superior over other people. If they don't get part one, you know they don't get any other part. I read the article, read the mention of buddhism, and saw the New Age complaints, and was like "oh great, another person who probably read Surya Das". Because like there's plenty of buddhists who teach buddhism (which s/he clearly as not learning), but there was also lots of new age writers who pretended to teach buddhism a few years back when it was the fad going around.