Who do you think is doing the best job of bringing authentic Buddhadharma to a broad audience in the West? How?
I don’t even know what myself is half the time, so I just try to act kindly and speak harmoniously with the echoes of the sphere, do my practice, relate to the teacher, behave harmoniously with the movements in the sphere - I’m not convinced that honesty is desired in community
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Human groups, particularly religious spheres, very rarely take honesty - real honesty - as a central principle around which the community self-organises or is orchestrated about. Extremely rare. I don’t want to upset anyone or offend anyone if it doesn’t achieve anything.
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I hear ya.
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People are at different developmental plateaus in a sangha. For me, decoupling behavior from feelings can be a skillful guideline in sangha
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Yes, decoupling behaviour and feelings is nearly always a skilful guideline, in so far that feeling can inform behaviour, but it normally just drives it completely. I agree. Although, it is much more complicated than that. Sorry for detailing your original tweet
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I think the issue of ‘honesty’ is usally more about validating our own feelings than expressing objective data.
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I think that’s probably true
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