“Religion = personal practice + ethics” is failing spectacularly for #Buddhism: practice liberated as Mindfulness; ethics is content-free.
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Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness What do you mean when you say buddhist ethics is "content-free?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Tommi_M_Elo
@Tommi_M_Elo Is there any point at which “Buddhist ethics” disagrees with current liberal secular ethics?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@Tommi_M_Elo I think that even a cursory real look at Vajrayana would horrify most liberal secularists to the core2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jasonlouv
@jasonlouv@Tommi_M_Elo I hope Vajrayana can eventually be used as a tool against secularized Protestantism. See http://meaningness.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/modern-buddhist-tantra/#protestant …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@Tommi_M_Elo How different is Vajrayana, really, from the Catholic hierarchy that Protestantism fought in just this way?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jasonlouv
@jasonlouv@Tommi_M_Elo That means it gets less of what is right in Protestantism and also less of what is wrong…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@Tommi_M_Elo Much like Catholicism, and, these days, Protestantism1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@jasonlouv @Tommi_M_Elo And like all other religions throughout history, probably. Hierarchy is an automatic human dynamic.
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