https://youtu.be/X7brJ8qrLBo?t=3485 … (20-30s) Re the Culadasa stuff, this sort of gestures at the key failure mode, in his own words, the experience of it as described from the inside. This is not just Culadasa, this is every practitioner to some degree and every sex scandal ever, maybe. 1/
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So, yes, let's bring in Western psychology, depth psychology, shamanism, bodywork, IFS, Core Transformation, etc., etc., etc. Use it; use all of it. But, also, meditation can be fixed. It *is* broken. We are *not* asking more of it than it can do. We *don't* have to settle. 10/
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Apologies for not yet widely publicizing concrete fixes. There is still much to do around self-safety and other-safety. But, there are ways to get involved. https://meditationstuff.wordpress.com/2019/07/27/protocols/ … /12
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Also, I want to emphasize that I've critically benefited from multiple contemporary teachers. And I've definitely benefited from Culadasa's written material, possibly critically. I personally would have been fucked without the contemporary scene. I still have more to do. /13
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So many meditation communities are iterating on theory and practice. Every serious teacher is a aware of this stuff and cares about it and is doing they best they can. (Culadasa, everyone.) Every student needs to be aware of it, too. It's alive. Let's do this. 14/14
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I should have said after 10/ that out of all techniques nothing can “get in the cracks” like meditation potentially can. It is potentially the most exhaustive self-transformation method, bar none, all else being equal. 15/14
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This is something I've wondered about. Does some of the harm caused imperfect teachers come from the expectation that perfect (or at least perfectly trustworthy) teachers exist?
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Yeah, that's a nice summary encapsulated in your query. I would think that that concern is one of the main reasons that people are against buddhahood/sainthood goals and claims, to protect and empower practitioners, for better or worse. Tradeoffs, there. But understandable.
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