I have a question about the lack of "stage 5" Buddhist gatherings in the US and how that could be remedied.
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You mentioned that practitioners get to stage 4 by engaging with something more structured and disciplined.
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What if a buddhist or non-buddhist religious group were to engage with a particular disciplined tradition of practice,
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but do so in full knowledge that the particular practice they have chosen is just one of many valid "maps."
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And then take the crucial step of changing the practice, as a group, for another one.
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So every year or few the group decides they have collectively received enough benefit from exploring that particular tradition.
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So they move to the next. If they have cycled through enough preexisting practices, perhaps they invent their own eventually.
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the key ingredients are engaging in whichever practice is chosen for the moment in good faith,
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while always knowing that it is not absolute, and engagement with it is just for seeing more of the world.
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That is all I have. Any thoughts or comments you have would be much appreciated. Cheers!
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It seems like a promising approach! Maybe it resembles Dzogchen’s appropriation of all other Buddhist paths as relative methods.
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