5 Mythic Discourse in a Globalized world
I have put forth the following simple case: If Bauddha sati is equated to Indra the king of the gods, then vipassanā, or so-called "insight (meditation)," is the godly weapon that Indra welds. In Bauddha doctrine Gautama teaches the ancient path of "insight" (vipassanā) that tears asunder the veil of ignorance, brings knowledge, and liberates people from the cycle of birth and death[7]. It may be worth mentioning that, more specifically, Indra is known in Bauddha tradition as Śakra (Pāli Sakkra)[8]. Well then, if it actually bears truth that sati is Indra the king of the gods, and if vipassanā is the god's holy weapon, then I have just used this weapon to tell a new story. 'Why?' That we may finally and once-and-for-all move beyond. I have demonstrated how to plumb an old myth and retell in a way that subverts the dead meaning. I have demonstrated how to bury but one of a bewildering number of the counter-hermeneutical snares and red herrings with which this path is insidiously laden, that it loosen its cultish grip on you, and you distance yourselves from rash identities, and open yourselves to the sequenced pace of the things that are now, that you may finally understand that "Buddha-ism" is historically and culturally derived form Brāhmanism, and that the entirety of its ethical, religious, and philosophical outlook is but a grand unmitigated plagiarism of earlier, largely Vedic conceptions and sources.
