The idea that a particular you needs to be "empowered" is itself disempowering, a form of learned helplessness.
Empowerment is autonomy and self-determination. The fewer elements of this body are slaved to an imaginary self, the more autonomous they are.
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It seems there is no beef with anatman being a right view for the spiritual path.
The issue is the failure in Western non-traditional settings to realise the meaning of anatman. All these buddho-self-help authors using it to justify a new, more reified, self.
Is that fair?
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I don't think it's categorically fair. Many legit teachers (interviewed on the Deconstructing Yourself podcast, for example)
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Honestly, I don't mind some of that. I don't take it literally. More of an experiential pointer.
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Other good teachers on DY (in addition to Kenneth Folk) include Culadasa (John Yates), Shinzen Young, Daniel Ingram, and Rob Burbea.
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Ingram and Shinzen are both gold. Culadasa and Burbea are on my "to study" list still.
They are both fantastic. Can't recommend highly enough
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Started with The Mind Illuminated a while ago, but had some life issues come up and lost the thread. Will have another go at some point.
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