This comes from another thread.Myoho-Nameless wrote:I have been on more than one occasion very near to renouncing Buddhism. I am really not much of a good fit.
I've read the view in some Buddhist books that a person must have sufficiently good karma to encounter and practice Dharma, though over time I've become aware of various teachings that purport to be a gate that practically anyone can enter. These kinds of great gates, large nets, or great ships of teaching and approaching Dharma appeal to me, and I think this is why I've been drawn to Japanese Buddhism where I see streamlined, simplified practices like Zen sitting, Nembutsu, or Lotus daimoku. This idea that Buddhism is for everyone is appealing. So when someone says that they are "not a good fit" for Buddhism, this strikes me as wrong. Either they are looking at Buddhism as a kind of totem to represent them somehow or their view of Buddhism is more elitist, where only certain people can properly attain awakening.
What do you all here think about this statement above? Are some people simply "not a good fit" for Buddhism once they've encountered it or is it simply, (as I see it,) a matter of drawing the correct teachings and emphasis for one's own personal and cultural perspective from the Buddhist teaching?