A friend said something I thought was insightful that people should hear. He did not want to post this openly himself, though. Really says something about the level of intellectual honesty in contemporary Buddhist discourse, no? Anyway, posting because I think it's useful. 1/6
[Quote] "I appreciate a piece Ken McLeod wrote about karma. His point was that Buddhist teachings were about training the mind. Karma is not very useful as a mechanism to explain how things happen, but it is useful as a teaching RE how actions sow seeds. 2/6
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As a result, it isn't necessary to take karma literally. And yet, seeing karma as a teaching can give one greater respect for cultivating the causes of "goodness" however one wishes to define it. 3/6
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Similarly, when Dudjom Lingpa, et al., suggest that phenomena are mind, I find it useful to consider that a teaching, not Dudjom Lingpa's attempt to play Tibetan Stephen Hawking and explain the inner workings of the phenomenal world. 4/6
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What Dudjom Lingpa wants is for you to practice Dzogchen. This means recognizing the nature of mind, training in that recognition, and seeing outer, body, and mental phenomena as the self-display of awareness. 5/6
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Dudjom Lingpa will do anything to help you accomplish this, even if it means supplying you with an oversimplified model of phenomena." [/Quote] 6/6
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