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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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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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Sky godhood, obviously
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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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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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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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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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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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