@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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Replying to @SpeakingSubject @evantthompson and
I’ve posted an audio monolog prompted by
@evantthompson’s comment, recorded by@_awbery_. Most of it is not directly responsive, although we did get to the point at the end. The accompanying text notes may be more relevant. Comments welcome!https://meaningness.com/metablog/buddhism-cognitivism-podcast …4 replies 3 retweets 22 likes -
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As an outsider to Theravada-derived practice, it’s questionable for me to express doubts about it. However, I’ve had serious reservations for a decade or more, as I’ve occasionally written. Due to both ignorance and wanting to avoid sectarianism, I’ve avoided being too explicit.
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I have found myself in strong agreement with what
@evantthompson has said in this discussion.@_awbery_ and I have discussed this extensively for years. This on-going project emerges in part from that:https://vajrayananow.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/journaling-a-staged-path/ …3 replies 1 retweet 7 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness @evantthompson and
I'd be curious to hear your thoughts about why Dzogchen, and in particular the state of mind it tends toward, is different. Could you speak to this?
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I most try to convey in my writing that different Buddhisms *are* radically different. The "Consensus Buddhist" framework denied this, and successfully obscured it for three decades. Once differences are admitted, one can ask which are good tools for specific purposes.
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No extant system is free from severe flaws, or best for all purposes. Dzogchen has flaws that are probably fatal. People will still be doing Mahasi-Lite
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Vajrayana in general, and Dzogchen in particular, have goals that are more compatible with what people want now than Sutrayana does. They are at least pointing in an attractive direction, and 20th C modernist Theravada isn't afaics.https://vividness.live/2013/10/24/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview/ …
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"Dzogchen" covers a multitude of evils and any contemporary use of it requires extensive reworking. Also it was always a hyper-advanced practice and on the whole I think trying to explain it popularly now is pointless... so I've mostly written about tantra instead.
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Tantra would also require drastic reworking to make it useful now, but it's more understandable than Dzogchen, and we do have examples of successful popular deployments.https://vividness.live/2019/04/24/reinventing-buddhist-tantra-annotated-table-of-contents/ …
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Vajrayana generally aims for "empty form" which is intensely meaningful. Whatever defects it has, nihilism is not one...https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/drinking-the-sun …
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