There seem to be a lot of meditative teachers who are genuinely malicious. I met a meditation teacher today who was nothing but an angry bully towards me despite her attempted veneer of presence. Subtle but intense and conscious anger. Meditation culture is not prepared for them.
A skilled meditation teacher will usually recognize such a lack of integrity and fix it in themselves. I suspect that your Aspie traits (also apparent in your preference of reasoned argument over a consistent perceptual model) may have triggered a stereotype in your teacher.
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It was just a networking event, rather than a meditation teaching, but yeah e.g. I answered a group question "what gives what you do meaning" by saying the Q was justificationist & refuting justificationism & she said "yr operating from the head not the heart".
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She was correct; she wanted to express that your answer failed to recognize and serve the purpose of the question, while it would have been in your interest to do so. The mental organ that measures shared purpose is the heart, not reason.
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Our integrated world model is more perceptual than symbolic. Proving a property of a nonsymbolic model means that it has to achieve stability while propagating all local model states to each other in the right way. If you succeed, you have a richer model than reason can generate.
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Is there a place I can read about nonsymbolic models and that condition for proving their properties? I've never heard of either before
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"skilled" is the key word there. I think she just followed a misandrist meditation tradition. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that the epistemology of meditation cultures is often bad and so many of them are susceptible to corruption by emotionally vengeful people.
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if I didn't have a very specific meditation practice I don't think I would have noticed it
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