Trungpa psychologizes large amounts of Buddhism, e.g., he reinterprets the lokas as psychological states. That's a typical Buddhist modernist move. I see Naropa and his Shambhala training as smack dab in the heart of Buddhist modernism.
No, that in of itself seems traditional to me. Whether it's part of BM would depend on the larger context.
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One last question, then I will give it a rest: if I correctly understand "enlightment as nonceptual", doesn't that view (and its attendant potential problems) go all the way back to Padmasambhava?
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Yes, and arguably as a thread in the suttas too. BMs weave it into Western romanticist-transcendentalist threads. Either way, I think the idea is very problematic, especially in the BM renditions.
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Sounds like we need a post-pandemic dinner and beer to thrash this through to the end
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