One thing I will never understand about Westerner meditators is how eager some are to ape renunciate paths and their received wisdom.
I know exactly one meditator who has renounced much of life, and they have good reason.
Are any of the rest of you going to renounce? No...?
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Then why the fuck act like it's even an interesting modality of practice for more than one person in a hundred?
Or worse, that it's the only worthy modality?!?
Nimrods.
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It can't be an accident that the most fervent proselytes of renunciation-while-alive-in-the-world come from communities blighted with rape claims.
Public shaming is a primary tool of the abuser, and that stuff gets internalized quickly by most victims.
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"As he lifts my skirt, guru says that fear is a sign of conditioned attachment to the body, and must be let go of.
As he strokes my leg, he informs me that revulsion is a sign of conditioned attachment to the body, and must be let go of."
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It's not that renunciate paths are per se bad.
It's that they're often not appropriate for Westerners, and predators frequently teach us corrupted versions.
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