Your story highlights the need to place any one way of practising in a broader context of practice. Personally the language of "energy" sounds ridiculous to me, but I take your point: attempting to suppress thoughts and emotions is unhealthy in the extreme.
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That word energy is only ridiculous if we cannot find an alternative. In describing phenomenological experience in practice, it is very useful, & just needs a bit of conextualising. What workable alternative would you suggest?
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Loving how you are calling out the use of the term ‘energy.’ When did the Buddha ever say that?
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BTW your story is exactly like what Sangharakshita described happening in the Hampstead Buddhist Vihara in the early 1960s. And I think it is partly why we do devotional pujas and collective study as central practices in Triratna to this day.
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