@evantthompson on the deceptive foundations of modern Buddhism, with @OortCloudAtlas. Nice debunking of “it’s not a religion, it’s mind-science” rhetoric.
Based on his new book, which deserves to be the last thing written about modern Buddhism.https://deconstructingyourself.com/questioning-assumptions-about-buddhism-with-evan-thompson.html …
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“Why I Am Not A Buddhist”: The varieties on offer are traditional (which no one wants) and modern (an incoherent construction that has disintegrated over the past 15 years). Can we do something else and still call ourselves Buddhists? I think so… https://www.amazon.com/Why-I-Am-Not-Buddhist-ebook/dp/B082P4FFRG/ …
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I am in a zen sangha and it’s good for me but there is absolutely no place for my kid there and most people there are unapologetic about this. They want it to be quiet and orderly.
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We kids at the Lindisfarne community would judge the spiritual teachers by how nice they were to the kids. The Zen Buddhists were at the bottom; the Sufis were at the top.
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My term for the noise kids make in church is "holy chaos"
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