On Someone Else's Program

One of my main critiques of so-called "spirituality" is that it allows for almost a perfect escapism. I mean, you create this other world in the imagination that the Buddha or whoever attained, and now you're on that path and you spend your whole life walking the path and that is how you avoid the actual living of this moment. You're on someone else's program. And you find a teacher who teaches you his or her program and you believe it and now you're actually living a second-hand life.

Robert Saltzman