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The Buddha

By starting on the Buddhist path, you are abandoning whatever path you were on. This metaphor does get a bit odd at this point. You may not have thought of yourself as being on any path at all, although that is a fairly common metaphor for living one’s life in general.

The Buddhist path is not the most common path in the United States. It is certainly not the default path in the hegemonically Christian United States. I would not assert that it…