The meditation-industry complex was marginally adequate for teaching techniques, but lost most of the value of the Buddhist teaching role.
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In http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2015/05/bg-359-meditation-in-the-digital-age/ …
@VincentHorn explains some of what was lost—and is now returning. This is especially critical for Buddhist#Tantra1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes -
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It is absolutely impossible to teach Vajrayana—Buddhist Tantra—in a classroom style, or via books. It is not about concepts for techniques.
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@Meaningness I don't disagree with you, but got something that can't be learned from books it sure seems to involve a lot of reading!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@gshotwell I don't disagree, but that's probably due to the current scarcity of qualified teachers. In theory, best all taught orally.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness You think? It seems like most Tantric practitioners throughout history have spent a lot of time studying.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@gshotwell It's hard to know what most people did, at any time before 1700. Since then, Gelukpa institutional forms have increasingly >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@gshotwell > dominated even in the other schools; and that model is atypically scholastic.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@gshotwell The tantric scriptures themselves suggest only oral teaching. However, that might be myth.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Hmmm, well that's definitely the opposite of what I've learned, but I'd certainly be interested in reading more about it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@gshotwell See http://approachingaro.org/back-to-the-future … and more in http://approachingaro.org/back-to-the-future/comments …
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