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If our practice is in accordance with the core teachings of the historical Buddha there is no need to make another "buddh-ism". The teachings of the historical Buddha are clearly exposed and they are not just a kind of miraculous western style stress-killer. The teachings of the historical Buddha will always be far from any sort of cultural effortless well fitted Buddh-isms that are found all around the globe. The teachings of the historical Buddha, IMHO, are neither a philosophy nor a religion because it is neither an speculation of reality nor a set of metaphysical entities so to worship them; but the different Buddh-isms are. In hand of the Westernized minds surely it will become another New Age mystical lite lifestyle philosophy.

The teachings of the historical Buddha are about Sila, Panna and Samadhi. The three of them are needed to be together in our practice. The correct practice of the teachings of the historical Buddha, and not the Buddh-isms, will sooner or later lead us into a whole deep change of lifestyle, more simple and deeply aware of our compulsive tendency to consume and behave becoming aware the way we actually deplete everybody and everything.

So we have two choices... to keep under the culture-less and timeless teachings of the historical Buddha left in the Pali Canon or embrace into one of the many Buddhisms that are at hand at the spiritual marketplace. If we look intuitively the story life of the historical Buddha we can witness the hows and whys of his radical change of lifestyle.