The Buddhism you & I like is partially exclusivist & so for the few but doesn't need to be wed to high earning lamas like Shaun writes.
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As I say, we need more active exploration of post-traditional forms of Buddhist theory & practice & collaborations to disseminate results
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Replying to @Sciamanoinglese @Meaningness
If you look at the history of Buddhism, then what we reformers are doing is absolutely traditional. It's not "post" anything, it's oldskool.
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Replying to @Jayarava @Meaningness
Isn't it both? Perhaps post-traditional is simply an ideological stance to distinguish need to be obedient to traditions' rules?
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Replying to @Sciamanoinglese @Meaningness
Maybe. But to me that ideology looks like an off-shoot of neoliberalism.
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Replying to @Jayarava @Meaningness
Why? What's neo-liberalism got to do with it? That's a real question BTW.
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Replying to @Sciamanoinglese @Meaningness
OK. It's a stretch. But at the least you are suggesting libertarianism, suggesting rules don't apply.
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But you're also saying that you are free to appropriate the practices of Buddhism (which is cultural imperialism).
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Replying to @Jayarava @Meaningness
That said, I think we're all free to appropriate, which is one of the real benefits of a globalised world. It goes both ways though.
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Replying to @Sciamanoinglese @Meaningness
Oh dear. This is definitely neoliberal ideology. It never goes both ways, because of inequalities and asymmetries.
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Worth bearing in mind that most/all Asian Buddhist modernisms have enthusiastically, evangelically exported themselves to the West.
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Replying to @Meaningness @Sciamanoinglese
By the definitions in play, Buddhism has always been modernist, and was always exporting itself in all directions. Including back to India!
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Replying to @Jayarava @Sciamanoinglese
Indeed! I have a draft post titled “Two thousand years of Buddhist modernism”…
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