I think they can be incompatible. When I was a student I had a professor of Buddhism who told me she believed Tantric adepts meditated well enough they could fly. I felt that this religious belief of hers made her less valuable as a scholar.
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While such rhetoric can be problematic, particularly if touted as fact (rather than entertained as possibility) in an academic setting, this isn't what I'm getting at. Beliefs aside, let's say she prays, meditates, attends church/etc., or engages in other religious *practice.* 1/
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This is completely incomprehensible to me. Rigorous scholarship and rigorous practice are incompatible? approx 1200 years of Tibetan lotsawas would laugh at this. Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī and Abhivanagupta would be ROTFL
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Huston Smith, a polylineal practitioner and scholar, would be baffled. It's unfortunate that you're encountering this. Are you familiar with Alexis Sanderson? He is from a previous generation. Phenomenal scholar; he also studied w/ one of the last great masters in Kashmir.
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This is so depressing. For reasons I no longer understand, I let the academy push me away from my meditative practice, and I buried it for ~13 years; it came back because contingent factors reminded me of possibilities, and I resent the academy for making it weird...
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They're the weird ones! Also sorry to hear this, B and X. That's not a domain they should be able to have such sway over.
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No doubt this is mainly a bias against Eastern religions unfortunately
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