What Strip Clubs Can Teach Us About Dharma

Dharma Snobs, The Burlesque Scene in The Graduate, "Gentleman's Clubs," Kind Wiccan Priests, LeTigre, The Male Gaze, Nakedness vs. Nudity, Unadorned Bliss, Sensuality & Meditation

​​When I was nineteen, I nearly became a stripper in order to study Buddhism. I desperately wanted to learn everything there was to learn about Dharma, but there wasn’t much accessible to me in the small city where I lived and studied. I frequented  a local Dharma center on a few Sunday mornings. The members were friendly and kind enough to give me basi…