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Evan Thompson

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Writer, UBC Philosophy, Assoc Member Asian Studies & Psych Depts. Married to @beckettodd

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    Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson 6 May 2019
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    From the @yalepress Fall 2019 catalogue -- a short interview about my forthcoming book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/sites/default/files/fall_2019_catalogue_web_final.pdf …pic.twitter.com/NASJCU6P6e

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      2. Samir Chopra‏ @EyeOnThePitch 7 May 2019
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        Dear Evan, I'm looking forward to reading your book. I'm fascinated by the position you describe as 'Buddhist modernism' and look forward to understanding it better. Does that include claims like 'Buddhism offers us a first-person 'science of consciousness'?

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      3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson 7 May 2019
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        Yes, it does. That kind of claim is a typical Buddhist modernist one. I talk about it in the book.

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      2. Jeff Sussna‏Verified account @jeffsussna 6 May 2019
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        I am a western Buddhist but would not consider myself a modernist. My root teacher was Trungpa who in many ways was a strong traditionalist.

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      3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson 6 May 2019
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        Replying to @jeffsussna

        Trungpa was a Buddhist modernist. (Btw I'm not defending traditionalism.)

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      2. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara 6 May 2019
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        Questions I’m thinking through after a long meeting w/ a Vedantin: What does Buddhist philosophy offer that’s unique? And how does the Yogācāra focus on the construction of experience, understood through the lens of their meditative practices, shape the questions they are asking?

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      3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson 6 May 2019
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        2/2 As for Yogācāra, I think their questions come partly from meditative issues, partly from more general philo issues

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      1. Jeff Sussna‏Verified account @jeffsussna 6 May 2019
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        FWIW I will confess to having little patience for “mindfulness will make you better at the speediness of modern life”.

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      2. Ari Allen‏ @aristevenallen 6 May 2019
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        Why did the Lindisfarne Association disband? And is there anything like it out there now?

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      3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson 6 May 2019
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        Disbanded mainly due to lack of funds. Nothing really like it now (at least that I know of). But it was a creature of its time.

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        Do you touch on science (not)being loaded with value? That is different from saying science cannot validate prescriptives. Ie values rooted in our embodiment social situatedness. Imo it’s already embedded in selection and framing (background) of the questions scientists pursue

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