@OortCloudAtlas with @erik_davis on current developments in American Buddhism. Hopeful new directions!https://techgnosis.com/deconstructing-yourself-2/ …
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Eight years ago I ranted about the baleful hegemony of “Consensus Buddhism”—which boiled down to “It’s nice to be nice. Also, mindfulness.” And I suggested it was imploding. It’s over now! And diverse, more-substantive alternatives are emerging.https://vividness.live/2011/12/31/one-dharma-whose/ …
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Whereas the political hegemony of Consensus Buddhism is visibly over, its memetic dominance lingers. In particular, all the new alternatives seem to be mostly recycling mid-20th-century export Theravada. Harder-core versions maybe, but can’t we find other sources of inspiration?
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Harder-core Theravada adaptations like TMI or MCTB work well both because all the information is public and because there are online communities where advanced practitioners can guide intermediate ones, and intermediate ones can guide beginners, along with connections to teachers
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The more I follow these debates about systems, explicitness, hard-edged secularism, "product design" and neuro hacking, the more I realize that zazen/shikantaza is in some ways a basically different beast--not a different system, but a different ethos.
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I thought your podcast points about “gaining idea” were very well taken! Also, the fact that different Buddhisms are fundamentally different beasts, not national variants on a common core, is the truth that Consensus Buddhism suppressed, which was deeply harmful.
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