I just spent several hours blocking most of the annoying, passive-aggressive, envious, mostly talentless and zero-wisdom, overwhelmingly overtly left-wing Western Buddhists I met over the last 10 years in India and Nepal. Feels very liberating. It's time to stop being Mr. Nice Guy and set our boundaries. These people will never do anything for us, and are always waiting in ambush. Some of them would probably kill me if they had the chance. They're cultish and stingy and closed-minded as hell. I should have cut most of them off 4-8 years ago. Tibetans are mostly cool, but a whole lot of those Western Buddhists are a very misguided, egotistical and uncompassionate bunch, to say the least. The politics is more indicative of their neurosis than the cause of it though. Fucked up society, what can you say, Buddhism won't fix their problems because they don't even understand it or practice it, it's really better to keep a polite distance, and be extremely discerning...

Erick T.