I haven’t read it yet, but the recent paper by Analayo critiquing MCTB just plain pisses me off. (Context: reddit.com/r/streamentry/ )
I don’t have anything to add or particularly want to write a rebuttal, but it’s just such a gaslighting premise.
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Insight meditation causing mental health difficulties? Not even possible — you’re deluding yourself about experiencing insight, you’re doing it wrong, and it’s your own damn fault.
Analayo? More like Analayo-retentive.
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Strawmen and gaslighting are more or less the bread and butter of intra- and intertraditional conflicts, no?
I really can't take any scholar seriously on this, considering they all take themselves far too seriously.
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It is not that there aren't academically interesting inquiries to be made, but rather that they are, well, academic.
Attempts to litigate living traditions through this method have to be considered Bad and Wrong, IMO, unless it is to draw lines between separate consensus groups.
I remember when I used to have more factions of Twitter Buddhist followers before I ended up shedding them through various means.
Getting some fucking Mahayana practitioner lecturing me about compassion and Bodhisattvas when I'm not even Buddhist at all is peak hilariousness.
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"Something something meditation."
"How dare you hold a perspective completely outside my <sectarian consensus>! Haven't you read <sectarian authority>???"
"Uh, well, no, because I'm not a part of your tradition..."
*more expressions of frothing rage*
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