Cultural Matrix

Meaning Without a Master: Performing Truth in a Post-Spiritual Age

If you meet the Buddha on the road, delete his number.

1. The Guru Economy is Collapsing

From temples to TED Talks, authority has always dressed itself as wisdom. But the age of the master is ending. Truth doesn’t require robes or retreats. It only asks that you show up—and pay attention.

2. Seeking Is a Spiritual Addiction

We don't seek truth. We seek relief. Most seeking is a spiritualized escape route from the moment. But *Mind Less – Care More* argues: the more you seek, the further you get from the thing you already are.

3. Meaning Is Performed, Not Found

Truth is not discovered—it’s embodied. Like music, it exists only when played. You don’t arrive at it. You participate in it. This is the shift from belief to being.

4. Post-Spiritual, Not Anti-Spiritual

The sacred doesn’t disappear without doctrine. It just becomes more feral. Post-spirituality isn't cynicism. It’s realism. It’s what’s left after the symbols fall apart.

No answers. Just real presence.

Want to unlearn instead of upgrade? Read Mind Less – Care More, a guide to truth without gurus, and meaning without meaning-making.

This article is part of a series on Mind Less - Care More:

• Self-Help as Self-Harm: When Healing Becomes a Hustle
• The Mind as Cult Leader: Deprogramming Your Inner Narrator
• The Religion of Seeking: How the Quest for Meaning Became the New God

• Killing the Buddha: The End of Teachers, Gurus, and Inner Guides
• The Myth of the Authentic Self: Who Are You Without the Script?
• The Tyranny of Insight: When Knowing Gets in the Way

• Debugging the Self: Escaping the Script You Didn't Know You Were Running
• Meaning Without a Master: Performing Truth in a Post-Spiritual Age
• The End of the Algorithm: Meaning After AI