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FTFY Buddhist ethics – Vividness
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The electricity of liberated perception. Monkey explains why he lives in an underworld, in. Journey to the West. Traditional Buddhist morality is obviously wrong. But the Buddha was enlightened, and Buddhism is the correct religion; so it seems that, due to some minor mistake, the tradition does not represent the. Know what is ethically correct and Buddha would surely agree! We can fix it for him. That is the principle of FTFY Buddhist ethics. Current “Buddhist ethics” is identical to. Also, he certainly.
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Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence – Vividness
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The electricity of liberated perception. Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence. Robert Kegan’s model of adult development has profoundly influenced my understanding of ethics, relationships, society, and thought. This page summarizes his theory. Earlier, I’ve mentioned Lawrence Kohlberg’s related model. Each stage has a more sophisticated and more accurate understanding of self and other, which makes more sophisticated and accurate ethics possible. Kegan’s model is, I believe, the mo...
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Why Westerners rebranded secular ethics as “Buddhist” and banned Tantra – Vividness
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The electricity of liberated perception. Why Westerners rebranded secular ethics as “Buddhist” and banned Tantra. Many of the Western creators of Consensus Buddhism say in their autobiographies that they went to Asia because they were disgusted with the sex-and-drugs hedonism of hippie culture. Coming from Protestant cultures, they were looking for a system of self-restraint, but they had rejected Christianity. Traditional Buddhism is renunciate, not Protestant. And renunciation is also unacceptable.
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Emptiness, form, and Dzogchen ethics – Vividness
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The electricity of liberated perception. Emptiness, form, and Dzogchen ethics. For a hundred years, the West has wrestled with the problem of ethical nihilism. God’s commands once provided a firm foundation for morality. But then he died. All attempts to find an alternative foundation have failed. Why, then, should we be moral? How can we be sure what is moral? No one has satisfactory answers, despite many ingenious attempts by brilliant philosophers. In the contemporary West. In this post, I will sugges...
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The mindfulness crisis and the end of Consensus Buddhism – Vividness
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The electricity of liberated perception. The mindfulness crisis and the end of Consensus Buddhism. Secular “mindfulness” courses, promoted as stress-reduction treatments, have become more popular than Buddhism. A meditation method based on modern vipassana. And critical aspects of the whole will be lost. And isn’t the whole greater than the sum of its parts? But… what is the important. That’s a genuinely difficult, important question. I wrote about it in a post three years ago. That foreshadows this one.
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How Asian Buddhism imported Western ethics – Vividness
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The electricity of liberated perception. How Asian Buddhism imported Western ethics. Modern “Buddhist ethics” is indistinguishable from current secular ethics. And has nothing to do with traditional Buddhist morality. So, where did it come from, and why? This replacement occurred in roughly three phases:. Around 1900-1960, Western political theories were imported into Buddhist countries, and were declared “the Buddhist ethics of social responsibility.” This was the root of “engaged ...In the 1990s, the r...
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“Ethics” is advertising – Vividness
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The electricity of liberated perception. 8220;Ethics” is advertising. By ethics, in quotes, I mean talk. Ethics, rather than what people actually do. This page explains ethics as. Personal advertisement. We all display ethicalness as a strategy for looking like attractive mates and coworkers, by signaling class status, tribal loyalty, and superior personality traits. Although this post is part of a series. Want Buddhism to be about ethics, even though it isn’t. Leftish secular morality on any issue.
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“Buddhist ethics”: a Tantric critique – Vividness
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The electricity of liberated perception. 8220;Buddhist ethics”: a Tantric critique. 8220;Buddhist ethics,” as I’ve pointed out in recent posts, has nothing to do with. Instead, it’s indistinguishable from. Mainstream leftish middle-class American secular morality. This page points out disagreements between contemporary “Buddhist ethics” and a Tantric Buddhist. View, for several reasons:. I think, at these points of conflict, Tantra is. And “Buddhist ethics” is wrong. Partly because of these conflicts.
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