| > A smartphone is a device designed to distract us and hold our attention. No it isn't. > to distract us and hold our attention. Even with a well-behaved app on it, it's still designed and configured to constantly beep and whistle and send notifications, and fly into our hand and compel us to doomscroll something unimportant. That doesn't match my experience in over the decade of using smartphones. > Someone who is practicing contemplation should not be held prisoner by a robot voice or a glowing screen A smartphone is a tool. > but instead reach an inner presence of God, and His stillness encompassing all that we experience during that sacred time. Buddhism is non-theistic. There is no God. > But to purposely tether yourself to a created, pagan object is to invite failure from the outset. Is this meant as satire? I mean, pagan? Really? |
This is a bold and untrue statement. There's every kind of Buddhism possible out there. Pure Land is pretty theistic…