Review: Buddhism Without Beliefs

Review of Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening by Stephen Batchelor

There’s a certain irony in how Buddhism has been morphed first into a more traditional religion with dogmas, which inevitably then splinter into multiple factions all professing to be the right one, and then later into Western culture.

As the West does, it brought in commercialization of things as well, and while Buddhism may have escaped the worst of it…