Christian collapse in middle class also partly because smart creative people no longer see preaching as feasible career. From @DouthatNYT:pic.twitter.com/SffIOaqMgM
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Christian collapse in middle class also partly because smart creative people no longer see preaching as feasible career. From @DouthatNYT:pic.twitter.com/SffIOaqMgM
Yes, I’m happy to dance on its grave! And, yes, there are some exciting current developments. But much less than I think possible/necessary.
True, but they’re of marginal significance (for non-ethnic Western Buddhists) both numerically and in terms of influence.
Yes; but very few Buddhist teachers can gather enough students and charge them enough for this to provide them with full-time support.
I just saw a postdoc ad for INRIA paying 2100 EUR month. Not sure this is such a unique problem.
Yeah, this is also awful.
Hard to imagine western Buddhism dying while its contemplative practices seem to be gaining so much traction. Maybe the dogmatic aspects tho
Because mindfulness meditation escaped from Buddhism, it’s now essentially already dead:https://vividness.live/2015/10/07/the-mindfulness-crisis-and-the-end-of-consensus-buddhism/ …
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