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would you be willing to speculate on what a "bid'ah" (arabic: innovation/heresy) in Vajrayana/Tantra might look like? if the guru problem is truly insoluble then what kind of solutions might actually work?
Vajrayana has a built-in mechanism for innovation, “terma.” If I knew the answer to the second question, I’d be working to implement it! (I do have some thoughts, but they don’t add up to an answer, unfortunately. Or not yet, anyway!)
forgive my relative ignorance and please correct where I'm mistaken. I've been under the impression that terma is essentially a kind of prophetic revelation experience with a semi-formalized system of lama verification. Like an HMAC, to use a tech metaphor.
that seems like, by design, it can't possibly escape the need for a lama. I suppose I'm just asking about pedagogy really. Can the teaching be adapted to a lama-free context at all? is terma really necessary? is secular innovation permitted/tolerated/desirable?
Do you mean, are the traditional politics and mythology around terma necessary? I think not; those would only be obstructions. Pedagogy is, yes, exactly the question.
We don’t have a workable model. “Free-for-all” won’t work in any field in which there are actually difficult things to be learnt. “Let’s all sit in a circle and share our feelings about organic chemistry” won’t result in anyone learning any organic chemistry. Ditto Vajrayana.
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