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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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.
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