I'm surprised! I guessed the results would be different, with tech mindset and meditation more popular. I thought that way because 'Sutra to Tantra' seems more niche than meditating and working in tech.pic.twitter.com/ORH8g8zq34
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Hardcore, renunciative Sutric practice was, historically, mostly confined to monasteries. By contrast, Tantra was originally practiced by outcast types. It challenged convention, messed with politics, refused to submit to the tepid mediocrity of stultified social niceties.
Eventually, the monastic and political elite co-opted Buddhist Tantra into systems of governance and social control. Tantra was tamed, made respectable and safe, scrubbed and washed then dressed up for formal occasions in Sutric clothing.
Now the situation is interestingly reversed. Sutra has escaped the monasteries! Just as Tantra was not well suited to monastic life, Sutra is maladapted to ordinary, communal activity. Designed for tightly controlled social environments, Sutric practice fails in predictable ways.
Some successful recent systems attempt to combine Sutric practice with Tantric attitude, mindfulness concentration with expansive awareness; finding a middle way between renunciative control and transformative engagement.
This approach arises naturally out of the current melée of inherited traditions, including lineages of Western psychology. At its best, it leads to flexibility, dexterity with alternate applications, coherent adaptation with meta-systemic intelligence.
At its worst, it leads to confusion, contradictory attitudes, a lack of coherence, misalignment of practice principles with unrealistic ideas about how they function.
When I talk about finding bridges from Sutra to Tantra, I do not mean finding a middle way. I'm looking for ways to step outside the Sutric worldview, make a journey and get to a different place. The *end* of Sutra is the starting point of Tantra.
This is where I see the gap in resources. It is a common sticking point for many people approaching shi-ne meditation practice. Once you experience the dissolution of the self, it's hard to see anything else when you encounter emptiness.
Shi-ne meditation is not about self-deconstruction, it's not about outing the deceptive trickery of the ego. If you have already spent a lot of time doing that stuff, there's a deal of creative, constructive work required to get to the point where it's no longer relevant.
What do you think about the book Wake Up To Your Life by Ken McLeod? It’s seemed like a really good introduction to Tantra when I read it, but I’m missing the personal connection to a good Vajrayana teacher to evaluate whether I actually was getting the point.
I haven’t read it, sorry! I met Ken once briefly at a @BuddhistGeeks conference and liked him very much. I have heard it recommended as a good, sound introduction to Mahayana.
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