Daniel Ingram has generously responded to my first three blog posts. His response is here: https://parletre.wordpress.com/2019/06/22/daniel-ingram-response/ …
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You do indeed. Which is fantastic. I suppose I'd say this: do you really think that these issues are well-recognized in the wider PD community? Is your sense that the people on the DO or Reddit have thought them through in relation to their own emotional well-being?
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I guess I'd also add... Here's a practice where "wisdom" consists of "noticing the three characteristics of sensate experience" (a gloss, yes, but even so) and that leads to "enlightenment." Yes, we recognize that "sensate experience" isn't really "reality," even though we call
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And the words chosen - "wisdom" and "enlightenment" as two examples - seem to encourage misunderstanding rather than clarifying it. The fact that teachers have thought about these things doesn't seem to do justice to the (seemingly encouraged at times) widespread misconceptions.
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it "sensate experience." Yes, enlightenment doesn't mean what you think and we recognize that we're imposing meaning onto exprerience with this practice. But that's a post-hoc additional to the conceptual system, not one of its historical premises.
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