While our relationship to the self and the world evolves as we practice meditation, so does our relationship to Buddhism itself. My attempt at exploring that process, from the perspective of a secular Western meditator:https://thefailedbuddhist.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/the-buddhist-stages-of-non-meditative-insight-part-1/ …
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist
Completely agree with the idea of repurposed skepticism as an open interface rather than an ideology of disproving claims. Studying Zen Philosophy was a turning point in my practice. My skepticism of the stories around Buddhism allow me to be more creative in ways of seeing.
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I agree; Zen has been very informative for me in loosening that instinctive attachment to conceptual frameworks that the mind constantly generates. Buddhism can help one begin seeing through such stories, but very often, stories about Buddhism itself will form to replace them.
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @epeterson360
The construction of "Buddhism stories" can be a deceptively subtle process, and much harder to detect. How do you let go of the thing that helped you let go of everything else? There's a pseudo-koan.
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(The answer is, of course, that we don't actually need Buddhism to let go of stories, and we definitely don't need Buddhist stories to do so.)
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