This article is well worth a read.
Zizek is definitely onto something, I think , with his critique of "Western Buddhism":
“It enables you to fully participate in the frantic pace of the capitalist game, while sustaining the perception that you are not really in it; that you are well aware of how worthless this spectacle is; and that what really matters to you is the peace of the inner Self to which you know you can always withdraw.”
