Reverse engineering spiritual teachings and methods betrays a dangerous tendency to control, manage and predict a process that should be one of learning, epistemic humility & genuine curiosity. Instead of working it, let yourself be worked by it.
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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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