Only ≥50 yrs since most recent east-west encounter. Idioms have been changed to suit modern sensibilities. Organizational forms adapted. Problematic notions done away with or psychologized. Refuge non-essential, precepts optional. Teachers replaced with apps. What's next?
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With the benefit of hindsight, this is no pragmatism, it's devolution and involution. It's corrosive, barren and clueless, an inverse cargo cult, with locust for its totem. "Only shallow people do not judge by appearances." — Oscar Wilde
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Change is due, for sure. If anything b/c this is a time of tremendous change. But it has to come about through returning afresh to first principles. Not the answers, the questions. Not the methods, the attitude. Not the extraction of goodies, but the sacrifice of indulgence.
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Don't think the idea of reverse engineering spirituality and the learning process to be contradictory, quite the opposite, I find them to be mutually helpful Reversed engineering this, when done well is nothing more than trying to understand your experiences in replicable ways
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"when done well" - that's one tall order, and on condition that learning takes precedence. Also, the foundation of spiritual legacy wasn't engineered to begin with. And then, there's the mysterium tremendum thing. Too many ifs.
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We have amazing diversity in our spiritual traditions. Each culture developed a tradition in response to the cultural needs of that community. Beyond the social aspects of our spiritual traditions lies the more empirical work with human physiology and psychology.
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It is towards a common understanding of the organizational structure as well as the inherent potentials of human incarnation that reverse engineering holds the most promise. If we are as a race to grow we must understand ourselves in the context of both our biology and psychology
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