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/ …
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Replying to @Meaningness
When you say that Tantra is politically unacceptable, is that because of the nature of actual practice, or the history of sex scandal?
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Replying to @robamacl
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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Replying to @robamacl
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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