Finished my second circling retreat at the Monastic Academy last week. I continue to be impressed with we-space practices, especially we-space retreats of which this is my third. /1
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Oh, one other thing to say. I’ve written in several places that Western Buddhism keeps reinventing aspects of tantra, because tantra is better-aligned with the Western worldview than sutra is. But the reinventions generally suck and often explode, sometimes killing people.
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Rather than importing dubious non-Buddhist practices as substitutes for Buddhist tantra, it would be much better to bite the bullet and do the real thing, thereby getting the benefit of 1300 years of smart people figuring it out plus vast trial-and-error practice.
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It's a lot like that. But with more gods.
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