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David Chapman
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 8 Apr 2019
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    Setting aside clichéd religious formulae like “no-self,” what do you actually want from meditation? Where did your ideas about that come from? How do they relate to your concrete experience of Buddhist practice?https://vajrayananow.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/the-limited%e2%80%8b-language-of-the-no-self/ …

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      2. Charlie Awbery‏ @_awbery_ 8 Apr 2019
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        Thanks for tweeting the link! Enjoying the replies to your tweet.

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      2. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 8 Apr 2019
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        Wow. That's a very helpful article! I've often suspected that something like this was going on, but this is the first time I've seen it articulated, at least by a self-identified Buddhist.

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      3. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 8 Apr 2019
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        I guess it's an example of a broader phenomenon of patterned religious language that becomes distant from its original context and yet which some continue to espouse strongly for highly path-dependent reasons.

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      1. Dandy Roddick‏ @Dandy_Roddick 8 Apr 2019
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        Sky godhood, obviously

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      1. Somatic Historian‏ @ScottParkCO 8 Apr 2019
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        "Just Say No to ‘No-Self’ in Zhuang Zi" Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi (1998) By Christian Jochim You might like this essay.

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      2. ≠ Dividualism ≠‏ @DividualsTweet 8 Apr 2019
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        I haven't done anything like that for a decade at least, but originally I wanted to reproduce that extremely blissful no-self experience I had under acid. Which describes like 75% of the people I know who meditated. It was simply extremely happy but also had another element /1

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      3. ≠ Dividualism ≠‏ @DividualsTweet 8 Apr 2019
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        Of feeling very profound. It was as if every leaf or rock I saw would be infinitely meaningful, but not pointing to any meaning outside itself. Liked it. But gradually drifted out of Buddhism, when seeing it has no useful political philosophy, especially not useful for my purpses

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      2. AtaraxJim‏ @AtaraxJim 8 Apr 2019
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        I mean... I agree with the author but I also think it's a bit trite to suggest that the point of meditation is to have some modern neuroscience and / or post-modernist (?) proposition about what the self am as a assented to proposition... 1/x

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      3. AtaraxJim‏ @AtaraxJim 8 Apr 2019
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        That's super easy to arrive at, actually, and only requires some intellectual curiosity and a good conversational partner. 2/x

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