“Postbuddhist” has grown on me. Not individual deconversion, but broad sad acknowledgement that Buddhism has failed.https://twitter.com/jaspergregory/status/869015119518244865 …
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Caring for non-ethnic Buddhism now has to start with admitting it HAS failed—not vague worrying that in future it may fail.
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Googling “postbuddhist” turns up few uses on the web. Some insight here: “Confessions of a Post-Buddhist Dissident” https://engagedbuddhism.net/2016/11/13/in-my-tribe-confessions-of-a-post-buddhist-dissident/ …
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8 years ago, I wrote a series on our responsibility for Buddhism as an endangered species. Too late: it’s extinct.https://approachingaro.org/we-matter-to-buddhism …
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Not sure which bit you are why-ing :) If you mean, why do I say it is extinct, this is about that:https://vividness.live/2015/10/07/the-mindfulness-crisis-and-the-end-of-consensus-buddhism/ …
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