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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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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hearing some "let's reinvent tantra" vibes here which is my fav vibes, curious about your take, esp. on
@Meaningness' stuff, e.g. athttps://vividness.live/2019/04/24/reinventing-buddhist-tantra-annotated-table-of-contents/ … -
For sure! I don't *think* I'm over-pattern-matching--my stuff is anti-renunciative and pretty damn coextensive with tantra, afaikt.
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