Is there a hermetic endgame in Buddhist traditions, where they secretly fix the student's epistemology and truth criteria (~Kegan 4), after they deliberately kept the student at Kegan 3 to use authority for fixing the student's motivational structure (~Kegan 5)? @Meaningness
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Replying to @Plinz
Um… I’m not sure I understand the question. I think you may have a different understanding of what Kegan’s stages are about than I do, and I’m not able to translate the question for that reason.
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Replying to @Meaningness
First principle of epistemology (confidence in belief must equal evidence in support) is the foundation of gaining agency over one's beliefs, but incompatible with many religious narratives. If you get through the school of mysteries, do they eventually tell you this secret?
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Replying to @Plinz
I’m reasonably sure not. Mainstream Buddhism isn’t a mystery religion at all. It has a surprisingly formal, well-developed epistemological theory, which explicitly takes scripture as unquestionable Truth.
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Vajrayana pretends to be a mystery religion, but basically isn’t. And it has no worked-out epistemology.
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