That may be, but his books, talks, etc., adopt a psychologistic framework, even if he may have thought of it as skillful means
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Replying to @jeffsussna
My point was just that that is a Buddhist modernist move.
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Replying to @evantthompson
Based on your description of Buddhist modernism, I'm not sure I buy that :-).
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Replying to @jeffsussna
[1] There are 2 issues here: what are the characteristics of Buddhist modernism? what are the problems with Buddhist modernism? Casting Buddhist in psychologistic terms (as Trungpa does) is characteristic of Buddhist Modernism.
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Replying to @evantthompson
I’m not trying to be argumentative. Just trying to really understand. My understanding of Trungpa has meaningful differences from the modernist approaches you describe.
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Replying to @jeffsussna
No worries. I wasn't taking this to be argumentative. "BM" is an umbrella term and there are a lot of variants under it. Trungpa's way of being BM is unique, to be sure, but I still see him as falling into the general category.
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Replying to @evantthompson
If someone teaches the traditional bardo teachings, but also presents the view that there is a bardo in every moment, is that BM?
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Replying to @jeffsussna
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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Replying to @evantthompson
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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