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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
5h ago“When you learned something true about a religion not your own, did it shake your faith or quietly strengthen it?”
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"Our" culture has fetishized Buddhism in a way that over-represents its goodness.
Here’s what I believe is a cultural observation: The buddhism that landed in the "West" has mostly been interpreted through a Green or higher lens (occasionally Orange like Sam Harris), so people think "Buddhism" is (1) itself green and (2) a coherent concept (rather than a wide... What makes learning about the ultimate easier in the modern era, and what makes it harder?: The Story
Ten thousand people in silence In 2003, a Burmese meditation teacher named S. N. Goenka filled Madison Square Garden with ten thousand people sitting in silence. Most had found their way there through a website.... I really see the break up with the very personal God of your youth as an increase in intimacy with God. You evolved in spiritual intelligence. I admire this. And it sounds like you’re in a continued evolution.... - IsaiahM...
HI, I died and saw God. It's way more rich than you might think. Think higher dimensional planes and all religions being right more or less. Just diff words colored by historical and cultural nuance.... Is energy the true currency?: Energy spiritualists
The oldest curriculum The Vedic tradition calls it prana — the breath that animates all living things. The Chinese call it qi — the vital force flowing through body and world. The Lakota call it wakan — the sacred power pervading nature.... What makes learning about the ultimate easier in the modern era, and what makes it harder?: Integralists
The spectrum In 1977, Ken Wilber proposed something either outrageously presumptuous or quietly obvious: the world’s wisdom traditions are not in contradiction. They are describing different stages of the same developmental sequence.... What makes learning about the ultimate easier in the modern era, and what makes it harder?: Perennial philosophy
The same mountain In 1945, Aldous Huxley assembled what the mystics had been saying for three thousand years in different languages: the Sufi and the Vedantin and the Christian contemplative and the Zen practitioner are describing the same territory. The vocabularies differ.... What is consciousness?: Contemplatives
The fish asks about water There is an ancient story. A fish swims to an older fish and asks, "What is this thing called water?" The older fish says, "You were born in it, live in it, will die in it. You are looking for the one thing you cannot lose." That is the entire debate.... Jordan observes that Western interpretations of Buddhism often project it as a higher-level, coherent philosophy as opposed to a diverse set of traditions, contrasting this with Christianity in the West, which tends to be seen through a more traditional lens.... - annabeth...
In this case I’m referencing truth that arises by quantity of overlapping consensus. From what I recall, one of the ways Ken Wilber sussed out the AQUAL map was taking every wisdom, philosophy, religion, theory, etc that he could find, and the more of those that a concept was...