@evantthompson has written a very helpful comment on my 1st post on Pragmatic Dharma. https://parletre.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/test-post/#comment-21 …
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- 20th C vipassana was invented by guys who were into extreme renunciative asceticism, and the simplified contemporary versions seem to retain significant renunciative elements that may be inappropriate for people whose own aims are not renunciative
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- The aims of the practice seem nihilistic to me. It is unsurprising that it can result in severe depression. I’d like to see a more prominent warning label, and more open discussion of whether aiming for death-in-life is what anyone should want.
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