Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons

by Kevin FitzMaurice

Discover Why and How Buddha FailedExpose Buddha’s self-esteem games and strategies.Discern the difference between material and spiritual ego.Explore how Buddhism can be harmful in spiritual areas.Recognize how merit alone cannot save you.Understand the true cause of suffering.Expose Buddha’s Path of SuperiorityOne can make the case that the primary purpose of Buddha’s legends, myths, and stories is to present Buddha as superior to others. Other considerations, such as teaching, are secondary. We do not care about Buddha or his reputation one way or the other. However, we do care if people take the false path of putting spiritual ego over material ego.

Avoid Spiritual MistakesLearn not to make the spiritual mistakes that Buddha made. The book’s message is use Buddhism for help in getting rid of your material ego, and reject the false path of spiritual ego that Buddhism promotes.

Discover the True Path to EnlightenmentSee how Buddhism can be helpful in material areas. We suggest that you take the need for getting rid of the material ego from Buddhism and the need for getting rid of the spiritual ego from Taoism and Christianity. Combine the two, and you will be close to the right spiritual path.

Much MoreUncover and examine Buddha’s contradictions.Avoid five spiritual failures.Avoid false spirituality.Find true humility, goodness, and spirituality.Learn about the right path and how to stay on it.Explore how self-esteem will lead you astray as it did Buddha.Learn to commit to non-doing instead of claiming.Refuse to worship Buddha in any way or form.Refuse to follow Buddha’s bad example.Recognize why God is important and pantheism is to be rejected.Recognize that Buddha was about spiritual self-esteem and pride.Discover your true and false human natures.Discover more than twenty-five reasons why Buddha failed.Finally, understand idols and idolatry.Finally, understand oneness and how it exists in life.Don’t Fail at Life like Buddha Failed!

Kindle Edition

Published July 1, 2021

About the author

Be it as a person's counselor or as a founding member of facilities for the homeless, Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S., NCC, CCMHC, LPC, seeks to make others' lives better by helping others improve how they function. As a volunteer, he supports community services to improve others' living conditions. As a counselor, he "counsels" in the traditional sense: advising, directing, and nudging--or pushing--others into facing and resolving their issues.
Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1300 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs). To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory, rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
After more than twenty years in counseling, Mr. FitzMaurice has worked four years in the substance abuse field, directed two community mental health programs, and spent fourteen years counseling in private practice. In that time, he has refined many principles for and methods of counseling. He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience, so more people can benefit than he can reach in person. Currently, he has more than twenty books written, most of which are available worldwide as e-books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Google, Kobo, and Apple.
The philosophical odyssey of Mr. FitzMaurice began in the late '60s. It has remained a mostly self-taught pursuit, with little formal training or education in philosophy. The odyssey started with Western philosophy and a study of pragmatism and atheism. For example, he read every work of Nietzsche that had been translated into English at that time. From there, he moved to the study of Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism, and a misguided experimentation with psychedelics to achieve states of superconsciousness. He continued into Eastern philosophy, pursuing Taoism and J. Krishnamurti. Next came a study of Christianity that started with seven readings of the Old Testament and nine readings of the New Testament from cover to cover, followed by a formal study of Western psychology. The ongoing influences for FitzMaurice's thinking continue to be Christianity, General Semantics, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and an Eastern combination of J. Krishnamurti, Taoism, and Zen.
Academic Credentials: Master of Science (M.S.) in guidance and counseling, with a specialization in agency counseling, from the University of Nebraska. Associate of applied science in human services - chemical dependency counseling (with honors), from Metropolitan Community College.
National Certifications: National Certified Counselor (NCC); Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC); Family Certification in REBT; Primary Certification in REBT; and Advanced Certification in REBT.
State Licensure: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon; Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa; Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) in Nebraska.
Community Service: One of the original founders of the Francis House, Siena House, and Stephen Center homeless facilities still in operation in Nebraska. Supporter of the following charities: OxFam America, Amnesty International USA, Habitat for Humanity, and Green Peace.