I just recognized an analogy. A problem comes up in explaining both Dzogchen meditation and meta-rationality: they are simultaneously nebulous and patterned. Dualists/rationalists want to hear “you do it like THIS: then this, then this, here’s how”….https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1185426710126182402 …
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If you say “it’s not like that, I can only give heuristics and analogies and pointers and landmarks,” they think you don’t know what you are talking about. (In which case, stick to technical rationality and to modernist Theravada as long as you can; it will be more comfortable.)
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Monists want to hear “get in touch with your intuitions, man, rationality is so square, you gotta realize we’re All One” which is false, useless, and harmful.
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In Dzogchen meditation and in meta-rationality, there’s accurate and helpful guidelines, but it’s up to you to figure out how and when and whether and why to apply them. Those are the patterns, like a herringbone sky.
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If you want affirmation that Everything Is Cosmically Perfect, check out pop Neo-Advaita, and stick with it until the idiocy makes you gag and you vomit the whole universe back up.
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Replying to @Meaningness
Do you have any thoughts/experience on old fashioned Shankara's Advaita Vedanta? Is it as naïvely monist as the new age crap?
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Good question, and I don’t know. I haven’t looked into it seriously. Some people who seem to know what they are talking about say it’s more sophisticated and doesn’t fall into the monist trap. The summaries I have read do not make it clear how he avoided that though.
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I would like to know the answer to this, but each time I’ve put a small amount of effort into it I’ve failed, so apparently I don’t want to know badly enough to do the work to find out!
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Replying to @Meaningness
Thanks for the earnest reply! I happen to have in-person access to a good, classically trained, Advaita Vedanta teacher, so I've been giving it an honest shot. I'll let you know if I find the answer!
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