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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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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      Vajrayana = {Tantra, Dzogchen} Sutra = {Hinayana, Mahayana} In standard emic accounts, that’s everything. The emic classification isn’t completely accurate; the Pure Land Schools are counted as Mahayana but function quite differently.

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      There’s a massively important distinction between yanas and sects, which are orthogonal classification schemes. Most Western Buddhists don’t know about this, and get confused. Theravada is a sect, not a yana.https://vividness.live/2013/11/25/yanas-are-not-buddhist-sects/ …

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      Theravada includes Mahayana and Vajrayana:https://vividness.live/2013/11/28/tantric-theravada-and-modern-vajrayana/ …

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      When I wrote that some years ago, there was very little information about tantric Theravada on the web, but now the wiki article is quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantric_Theravada …

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      Yanas are defined by principles and functions, whereas sects are defined by institutions.https://approachingaro.org/principles-and-functions …

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      Modern Buddhism combines Western principles and functions with some Buddhist elements. Since its core is largely 1800s German philosophy, it is does not fit into any of the traditional yanas. Several major Buddhist sects developed modern versions though.https://vividness.live/2011/06/16/the-making-of-buddhist-modernism/ …

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      Most of the currently-popular American Buddhist brands are derived from a mash-up of 1970s hippie ideals and '80s psychotherapy with Mahasi Sayadaw's mid-1900s mash-up of 1800s modernist Theravada Hinayana with then-current Western pop philosophy.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      (I can send you links for my blog posts on each of the stages of that sequence of mixing Western ideas into Theravada if you are want to be bored by the historical details :)

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Apr 2019
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      It's not clear how much Buddhism is left in that, if any. However, there seems to be a significant remaining renunciate flavor (left over from the Hinayana roots), which is @_awbery_ is preparing to suggest causes problems.

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    10. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 19 Apr 2019
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      Principles thing is helpful! Things I'm still confused about: - do people who successfully follow renunciate paths end up renunciate forever? is this considered correct, or an accident? - how does that relate to the idea that one might switch back & forth between sutra & trantra?

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      > do people who follow renunciate paths end up renunciate forever? That’s standard, yes. In Tibet, but mostly not other places, switching is common, but mostly only for the social elite. The Tibetan caste system is irrelevant in the West, so we can ignore that restriction.

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