yes, of course, but there is an enormous and impactful difference between being persuasive and using power to enforce conformity of thought. Argument from authority is one of the worst fallacious positions but it's the default for most religious communities.
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Yes, so for those of us who have clearly left that behind (or say that we have!) why are we still so focused in the rearview mirror? What lies beyond this differentiation of power? Integration, I think. Better ways of working with power than self-contradictory rejection.pic.twitter.com/KsA9cKuHTR
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It’s a massive exercise of power to say that I’m the locust of power and that others aren’t.
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I view you as a peer, but one with more experience in things than I have in areas that I am interested in learning about. I think that is the relationship you have with most of your peers here. Certainly anyone that goes on retreat with you, to some degree. Is that power?
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That said, when I start hearing deep wisdom from someone, that opens me up, I let go of control and go with what realities is teaching through us (that's my practice anyway). And then when I sense things are going off the rails I intervene. I absolutely exercise authority.
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This proves my prior point, Vincent, that many Buddhists are what I call ‘soft authoritarians.’
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Well, it beats the shit out of being a soft anarchist, in my experience. I ran that experiment in a spiritual community (the Buddhist Geeks Community) and it failed / wasn't for me. That said, learning never ends.
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this arguing from polarized positions is a mistake. what is the teaching anyway? I feel alright calling my politics "soft-anarchism" but not my spirituality. It's meaningless to classify it on that rubric at all.
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I haven't found a sangha because all the ones I have found are doing an awful lot of politics and not very much spirituality.
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That's the mess of human community my friend. Upsides and downsides and we can probably do it better. My favorite line still: "When rebels mature they build institutions." -
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like Peter and Paul? or like Constantine?
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