The White Lotus gives you a sort of strange take on Buddhism

Unlike the first two White Lotuses, the one in Thailand is different in that there is this Buddhist influence that runs throughout this one. 

My own memories of visiting Thailand in 1985 and 1986 were completely different than depicted in "The White Lotus".

For me, I was in Bangkok, Thailand and not on Phuket Island where this one mostly takes place. Phuket if you haven't been there is sort of a "Naughty place" I think would be the best way to say it. Sort of like a Las Vegas of Thailand where pretty much Anything goes there in some ways.

So, there is this Las Vegas in Thailand kind of feel to this season of White Lotus and you have interwoven a Buddhist influence that is specific to the Thai people also.

So, there is this dance between suicide and murder and yet Buddhism where you as a drop of water become one with the Ocean of life when you pass on which is an interesting juxtaposition in all of this.

I found myself Liberation through Tibetan Buddhism because that particular variety suited my mind stream.

Everyone is different and everyone will become enlightened in their own ways.

I found that the dualism of Christianity and many other religions sort of suicidal and self destructive so for me the non-dualism of Asia (especially places like Tibet and Thailand) were interesting to me and helpful to me in choosing to be a better person.

I would say I come from a long line of Survivors but being a survivor doesn't mean you are necessarily a nice person either. I come from Pioneer STock from Swiss Germen immigrants to the U.S. around 1725. My Great GRandfather was a Captain for the NOrthern ARmy in the Civil War.

So, I'm naturally a survivor like my forebears but in this lifetime I also choose to be a very kind person and not just a survivor.

I've found you can both be a survivor as well as a kind and nice person especially as a family man.

So, for me, my yoga has always been as a Householder Yogi as I learned it was possible to be spiritual and to have a family too. The religion I was raised in stressed celibacy and not getting married or being married without sex or children. This wasn't going to work for me.

So, I found my yoga of life (Yoga means to yoke) sort of like a bull or a horse yoked to a carriage it is pulling. So, the burden or discipline of your life is your yoga.

And I have always found my yoga (my discipline as a father and business owner). I also found my yoga in studying Tibetan Buddhism too. So, when I watch the White Lotus I see more of the Buddhist way of looking at things interwoven in "The White Lotus" third season.

I can't help but feel sorry for almost everyone in this third season of "the White Lotus". Wealth doesn't bring happiness but under the right circumstances it can help a lot. So, the wealth in "The White Lotus" is a sword that cuts both ways.

I think this is what people should take away from this series. Wealth can help you or kill you and you see the worst of all this in "the White Lotus" in many ways.

However, it doesn't have to be this bad because with the right enlightened point of view you can be wealthy and happy at the same time if your kindness towards yourself and others has integrity and helps your family and friends.