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Human, student, non-Buddhist Buddhist, intellectual masochist. Confident only of my own ignorance. Don't believe anything I say.

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    1. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova May 2
      Replying to @iwelsh

      Perhaps. Although it's comparable to several other accounts I am aware of.

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    2. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh May 2
      Replying to @euvieivanova

      I'm aware of quite a few as well and many from the person themselves. Not everyone finds it as terrible as you did, and for many even if terrible, it passes quickly.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh May 2
      Replying to @iwelsh @euvieivanova

      and then there are those for whom it causes permanent mental problems they never recover from - depersonalization, de-realization.

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    4. gregorylent‏ @gregorylent May 2
      Replying to @iwelsh @euvieivanova

      every nervous system is different, and i think "waking up" is different for everyone .. even "being awake" is different for everyone, different siddhis, different expressions ..

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    5. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh May 2
      Replying to @gregorylent @euvieivanova

      Agreed. Yet there are paths and commonalities. A lot of people seem to follow something fairly recognizably the Buddhist 4 stage path, for example.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 2
      Replying to @iwelsh @gregorylent @euvieivanova

      There's a reason Buddhist systems have been so successful. It's not that Buddhism has the one true answer, but rather that Buddhists have been unusually effective at articulating and navigating this territory.

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    7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 2
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh and

      That said, there's no reason to think awakening must always follow the 4 stage model, despite the declaration of Theravada fundamentalists. It is just a model after all, albeit a particularly useful one.

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    8. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto May 3
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh and

      decent model, but an awful lot of historical baggage and unhelpful metaphysical assumptions. also a bit of an obsessive focus on attainments, levels, "experience points", etc.

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    9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 3
      Replying to @danlistensto @iwelsh and

      True. I do think it has much less metaphysical baggage than, say, the Tibetan schools, and it's also easier to polish off. But we certainly need newer models that are more appropriate for the modern world.

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    10. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto May 3
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh and

      problem on my mind lately: what should we think of reincarnation metaphysics viewed from a modern perspective? the hard skeptic stance (there is no reincarnation) seems like a cop-out. also runs counter to some lived experiences (psychedelic and meditative glimpses).

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      Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 3
      Replying to @danlistensto @iwelsh and

      There doesn't seem to me to be a reason to believe in reincarnation. Why should I believe one person's experience over another person's scientific data? There's no way of finding a conclusive answer.

      9:27 AM - 3 May 2018
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        2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 3
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @danlistensto and

          My view on reincarnation is: Does it even matter? We're stuck here now, so we gotta deal with this train-wreck first. Obviously it's still fun to talk about and speculate on, even if it's not relevant to suffering. The trick is just not imagining that we'll ever have an answer.

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        3. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto May 3
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh and

          deeply pragmatic and therefore probably correct in all the ways that matter

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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