@concutere @Jayarava FWIW, I also suspect practices invented to finalize ascetic renunciation are not a good basis for Western lay practice.
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@concutere@Jayarava Surprising they work as well as they do, considering how they were originally conceived. Unsurprising sometimes awful! - 3 more replies
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@concutere@Jayarava Thanks! Yes, heard her talk on this at@BuddhistGeeks a while backThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@concutere Is it though? Is it really? If you get MBSR for pain management I'm told it is fucking amazing.@MeaningnessThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness@Jayarava Mark Epstein talks about meditation making depression worse in “Thoughts Without a Thinker”. … -
@Meaningness@Jayarava He comments that with the popularity of Buddhism in the West we now have a lot of hungry ghosts engaged in practice. - 1 more reply
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@manjusrikumara what is good? Sharf is openly against modern Buddhism, so needs to be read with caution.@MeaningnessThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@manjusrikumara Very, very stupid. Not worth looking at. Sharf plummets in my estimation. As does anyone else who holds this opinion.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@concutere@Meaningness Thanks, I hadn't seen this before. I should say that I'm generally in favour of meditation.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@manjusrikumara Well you should know better then.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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