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I think the thing with 'adopting' 'Eastern' spirituality is that it's difficult to be 'orthodox' in it. I often have this conversation with people who identify with Buddhism. They rarely have any idea of what sort of Buddhism they're interested in and have minimal understanding of the potential brutality of it - you all know the Zazen practice of twatting people over the head as they meditate, I'm sure.

I don't think being an inauthentic 'Eastern' practioner is really a problem; the problem comes when you realise that 'Eastern spirituality' produces and maintains some very strict dogmas. I mention the Pali canon being hideously expansive earlier because the idea of dominion over the writing of a culture is often impossible, or at least exceptionally difficult. To the protestant, there's a book that you could read in a week with minimum difficulty. People can say what they want about whatever they want, 'religiously', but I think it can definitely do a disservice to a religion to render it as some exoticised mourning for lost Christianity.