But one •structural• difference between Vajrayana and Trika is that there is no “hinayana” in Trika. There are dualist antecedents in Trika, going back to the first draft of the Yoga Sutras, but it’s not organized in vehicles. Trika is “ekayana” all the way, structurally
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Replying to @Timber_22 @QiaochuYuan and
Hinayana is distinct from Vajrayana by definition. (That’s a different three-way distinction, Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana).
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Replying to @_awbery_ @QiaochuYuan and
Yes, understood. Former Buddhist here, went pretty deep (abishekha deep). Gave vows back to dharmakaya (with blessing of my teacher) Still stan the Vajrayana pretty hard; but from the outside not in
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Replying to @Meaningness @_awbery_ and
Oh that’s a great question, and perhaps the answer’s too big for Twitter. (Perhaps not.) It had to do with exploring the life of Siddharta Gautama, as best as we can reconstruct it. I began to see him as a guy a) who was responding to Axial age questions similarly to...
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Replying to @Timber_22 @Meaningness and
...the Hellenistic life-practice philosophers (Stoics, Epicurus, Pyrrho) - working with existential questions, and also definitely influenced by Indic cultural assumptions about rebirth and b) who had a very unusual upbringing. I don’t think Siddharta’s dad did him many favours
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Replying to @Timber_22 @Meaningness and
by insulating him from suffering and pain for 29 years. Anyways: result of my inquiry was that I think Gautama is an important teacher, but not •the• teacher, and the four Truths of the Noble Ones are good, but I don’t aspire to nobility....
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Replying to @Timber_22 @Meaningness and
...in this life I’d rather be a halogen, or something else closer to the middle of the periodic table. Anyways, I essentially think Gautama misperceived something about the nature of reality while he simultaneously did see very very deeply.
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Replying to @Meaningness @_awbery_ and
Did that make any sense? (Probably twitter not the best medium for this kind of expression)
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Yup, thank you very much!
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Replying to @Meaningness @_awbery_ and
Hey, thanks for asking. Basically a wise man (who’s on Twitter but I’m not going to tag him here) captured it pithily when we were talking about this: Dukkha is not what all of existing boils down to, as classical Buddhism* suggests.
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Replying to @Timber_22 @_awbery_ and
Quite so. Not trying to sell anyone on anything but... isn’t that also explicit in Vajrayana?
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