Should I split off a separate twitter account for tweets about Buddhism? I'd keep this one for sci-tech, society, and secular methods of meaning.
Choice 3: "I only care about one of these, but am OK seeing the other"
Choice 4: "I actively want to see both!"
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Fascinating example: tantric ngöndro appears to have been invented in 1600s as part of the central government’s effort to replace a hadful of hard-to-control siddhas, who could magically destroy whole armies, with an easy-to-control “army” of clueless monks who were >
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> each magically weak, but whose power could be aggregated to be equal to that of the siddha. Ngöndro guaranteed their loyalty, and sadhana chanting was a way to get magical effects without the monks understanding what they were doing, which would make them dangerous.
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Indeed. When I became involved with Vajrayana I was initially surprised how much strange politics was involved. In a sense I came into Vajrayana without any previous context. Just met Lama Bar-chè Dorje once (before the Ling Gesar retreat where we met) and the rest is history.
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Detailed outline of my 2012 attempt to rethink Vajrayana Buddhism for contemporary circumstances.
(SFW; "tantra" here has nothing to do with sex.)
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