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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 13 Jun 2019
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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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    2. John Paul Lewicke‏ @jplewicke 14 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @OortCloudAtlas @erik_davis

      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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    3. John Paul Lewicke‏ @jplewicke 14 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @jplewicke @Meaningness and

      They also have Stage 4-style systematic maps of meditative techniques, stages, and effects. Obviously those are going to prove incomplete and need to be left behind at some point in practice, but they're really empowering for beginners/intermediates.

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    4. John Paul Lewicke‏ @jplewicke 14 Jun 2019
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      For an atomized Vajrayana to take off, it'd need to rethink samaya and publish more detailed descriptions of currently secret techniques. It'd also need to find a way to make the transition from one-to-one guidance to one-to-many by providing guidance on public forums.

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    5. Michael W Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas 14 Jun 2019
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      The one-on-one guidance is one of the most important aspects to preserve, I think. The one-size-fits-all huge vipassana retreats have a place, but nothing is nearly as effective personalized interaction with a teacher. (Granted, I also have a financial motivation to say so.)

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @OortCloudAtlas @jplewicke @erik_davis

      Yes, this is the critical point. We haven’t got a social structure that we know works, and without that no teacher is going to step up to do the work. The issue is not “the guru model,” it’s apprenticeship.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @OortCloudAtlas and

      Vajrayana is not information and it’s not techniques. It’s a way of being. It’s probably impossible to put that on the web (although I have extensively tried!). We don’t know of a way to teach ways of being other than with individual attention.https://vividness.live/2017/02/03/tantra-techniques/ …

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    8. Jared Janes‏ @JaredJanes 14 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @OortCloudAtlas and

      Well, I can personally say that writings like yours on Vajrayana have been extremely helpful in my practice, so perhaps there are aspects that can be pointed to in broader ways.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @JaredJanes @OortCloudAtlas and

      Thanks! I’m torn about whether to write more. I mostly think I was pointing in a direction that doesn’t go anywhere (for lack of teachers) so it’s unhelpful and misleading in the long term. But maybe “helpful in the short term” is better than nothing.

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    10. Dan listens to the sudden reconfiguration‏ @danlistensto 15 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @JaredJanes and

      I've found your writing to be a way marker, rather than an instruction. It's an invitation to set a course, by way of studying commentaries an older maps. It's made a huge difference for me and I hope you do keep writing.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 15 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @danlistensto @JaredJanes and

      Thank you for the encouragement!

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