it occurs to me that the principal problem with Buddhism as a concrete set of practices and beliefs followed by many people in many ways is that Buddhists are addicted to Buddhism. You have to both enter into and regularly exit the meditative space and mode of being. You have to bring wrinkles with you, iron them out, then get all wrinkled again.
When you disappear, why then you are getting somewhere, and it matters much less where you are and what you are doing.