Meditation gone wronghttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1242491649197891584 …
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The meditation methods that are mainly taught now derive from one invented a hundred years ago by Mahasi Sayadaw, who was an extreme ascetic. The fact that he designed it to induce something close to catatonic apathy has been systematically obscured.https://vividness.live/2011/07/07/theravada-reinvents-meditation/ …
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My experience here (among Western vipassana teachers) is that it's very (maybe too) dependent on language and subtleties of instruction. It seems at least possible to teach Vipassana in a way that doesn't encourage catatonia, if "empty" is not made synonymous with "meaningless."
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Oh, check out El’s podcast with
@DeconstructingU — it’s fantastic and there’s related chat in there about non-renunciative approaches.https://deconstructingyourself.com/rindzin-pamo.html … -
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Maybe off-topic but she linked back to your texts about power and mastery, I liked it.
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