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This is pretty much the Vajrayana perspective: conscious awareness is always relational (ergo when it’s turned inwards, dualism is the natural method). That’s why meditation in Vajrayana tends to be less concentrative, more organized towards expansive, inter-relational awareness.

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David R. MacIver

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Dec 12, 2019

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If you want a proper spicy take that I don't think will be shared... Consciousness is a distributed process that is driven by but not intrinsically localised in our brain/bodies and happens much more in the world/other people. (cont)

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Curious if I'm reading this right: So mahamudra can be construed as a way of avoiding the habit of micro-dualistic contractions of consciousness associated with a more conventional mindfulness practice?

9:08 PM · Dec 12, 2019Twitter Web App

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It might look that way from the perspective of some mindfulness practices. Habit avoidance is primarily associated with the renunciative principle in Buddhism. Mahamudra is non-renunciative, so it doesn’t normally present a worldview or a system for practice in those terms.