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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
people say this kind of shit all the time and i’ve decided i hate it. i think it is deliberately conflating a metaphysical claim with a tactical claim. incidentally, reggie ray, like many spiritual teachers, had himself a classic abuse scandal: matthewremski.com/wordpress/regg
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A dharma talk by Reggie Ray on the topic of: “there is nothing wrong with you. Nothing to fix. Nothing to run away from or improve. There is no problem. Can you accept that?” I heard it 2-3 years ago and it still wallops me every time I think of it.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
“nothing wrong with you” and “nothing to improve” are wildly different claims. one can let go of “wrongness” as a fundamental property of the self without letting go of the desire to cultivate virtue. it sounds like reggie could’ve used some more of that himself \_(ツ)_/¯
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
promising first page. “...charismatic, authoritarian leaders control their followers’ attachment relationships...” this shines a whole new light for me on the thing where cults like tell their followers who to have sex with and who to marry and stuff. messing with attachment
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