On traditional and modern approaches to vipassana having quite different (arguably opposite) goals:https://vividness.live/2011/10/06/wholeness-connection-and-meditation-competing-visions/ …
Neither (tho both were used as excuses). Actually about political power in Tibetan tribal hierarchy (https://vividness.live/2012/09/27/power/ …) and American Protestant assumptions (https://vividness.live/2015/09/30/why-westerners-rebranded-secular-ethics-as-buddhist-and-banned-tantra/ …)
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It's politics all the way down.
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This went down in 1980s so the players are retiring or dying. Younger Buddhist leaders mostly don’t care, so tantra could be revived now. Except it probably doesn’t address current (atomized) issues—whereas it was highly relevant then (subcultural mode).
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I planned to write about this in detail but it’s incredibly complicated and ugly and stupid and it’s now mostly irrelevant, so I punted
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Good call, really. Just curious especially about the idea that a practice could be politically problematic. Keep at the book.
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