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Itβs frustrating to me, in an empathetic way, that so many practitioners in Vajrayana who legitimately need guidance from a teacher get so few answers from leaders who donβt have enough answers themselves, so they shroud their confusion with ritualistic mysticism.
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Very well said. I find most teachers are not teaching from experience, but quoting from texts and commentaries. How is this different than a Baptist quoting the New Testament?
Students need guidance, and as you well point out, they aren't getting it.
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Not only is it a robotic parakeet trick of recital, but it robs each experience of any & all real value in the esoteric quality of lifeβs moments by making it an exoteric mockery. In something thatβs based in lineage-holding, this constitutes corruption in a single generationβ¦
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Let alone many generations⦠At least in Chinese/Japanese esoteric Buddhism, they stick to mostly one script & their time-tested method of discipline, instead of trying to juggle the preservation of a hundred different teachings & traditions.
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agreed. the Tibetan approach is messy. too many deities. too many termas. it confuses students endlessly.
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Termas still make me wonderβ¦ really? You found that scroll in a rock? I didnβt see it in there, and Iβve passed this rock a hundred timesβ¦
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Mahayana sutras, Tibetan Termas, Book of Mormon, Christian Science & Scientology "scriptures", Q'ran, etc. may be examples of automatic writing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic
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Considering automatic writing is little more than writing without thinking about it, it would make sense that most of the mystics and prophets have done it...
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Without conscious thought, Chagmie. I'm doing it right now. I have no idea what this sentence is going to say as I'm writing it.
I wouldn't exactly call that a psychic ability, though. Not every conscious moment is spent in ideation. But then, you know that...
Yeah, sorry, I left that one out. Usually when I say "thought", I mean "conscious thought". It's a bad habit that's landed me in trouble before.
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