@OortCloudAtlas with @erik_davis on current developments in American Buddhism. Hopeful new directions!https://techgnosis.com/deconstructing-yourself-2/ …
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Exhibit A is the invention of modern meditation by creatively misreading Pali Abhidhamma, which is speculative metaphysics, as if it were meditation instructions, which it isn’t.
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In a close parallel, early tantra was invented in large part by misreading Mahayana Buddhological metaphysics as meditation instructions. (It’s interesting to speculate about why this worked, in both cases, but it would just be speculation…)
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