All Woke Up And No Place To Go

First, let me clarify that by “woke”, I don’t 

mean what that word means in the common 

parlance of the Left these days, where every 

phrase they use has the opposite meaning 

of the words in them….double speak, as

Orwell would say. Woke in the Buddhist sense 

is “awakened”,as in the Buddha’s 

enlightenment.

What I mean by the title, ( too bad when you 

have to explain a joke) is this: in the sixties and

the seventies there was a spiritual revolution

happening in the USA. My generation was 

seeking the truth, not just going along with 

what their parents or society had told them.

All kinds of schools of Buddhism and

Hinduism found the neurosis of USA to be 

a fertile ground to plant seeds of teachings 

that showed the path to liberation from the

slavery of ego. It was a spiritual supermarket

in the USA at that time.

That time passed, and the largess available 

to  the young was supplanted by more rigid, 

career oriented paths due to the faltering of 

the economy, for one thing. It’s not that there

aren’t still spiritual repercussions of that time.

Burning Man is a logical extrapolation, as are 

wellness movements,  eco-building, raves, 

and more.  But the true heart of the spiritual

search has been somewhat dampened by 

the failures of many of the teachers and 

institutions they established to remain 

uncorrupted. Many of the lineage holders were

seduced by the openness of their students  

into pleasures of the flesh and power of

authority. One way to metaphor it is that

Woodstock succumbed to Altamont.

So, here I am with fifty years of meditation

experience, having taught while the teaching 

was good, with no place to teach, i.e. help 

others on the same path.

Oh well.