@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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- 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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I think that element of it is undeniable but I guess what matters is how and whether modern day practitioners, wherever they might be, face up to that aspect of their tradition. Is it integrated, challenged, or ignored? I imagine they have compensatory strategies.
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Just wanted to make a correction or two. Vipassana is not an “invention”, its a “discovery”. Starting with Saya Thetgyi, Sayagyi U Ba Khin and Shri. Goenka, all were householders, with a mission to teach the technique to householders. So it can’t be extreme Renunciative Ascetism.
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