There is no 'just ego'

Buddhist monks have no shortage of status, which they harvest from each other and from a general public that elevates them. But the great mass of us have to work for it.

Buddhists don’t understand human nature. This is rarely more evident than in Alan Watts’ glib dismissal of those who “rush around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” The meaning of life, he tells us, “is just to be alive... it is so plain and so obvious and so simple.” In fact, the meaning of life is to... See more