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Old 13-12-2017, 08:22 AM
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I've got to say Jeremy, you're spamming this thread. As it happens I didn't have you in mind when I started it, I had in mind all the self-proclaimed Western spiritual adepts, all promoting their own ideas and achievements.

It seems to me many people over-estimate their level of achievement, and the quality of it, and then turn around and set themselves up as knowledgeable teachers. Self-proclaimed gurus so to speak, and people are so desperate that they're prepared to believe the ones who have egotistically believed in themselves though for no good reason, because the followers can't come up with their own nonsense to thoroughly believe in in the first place, and they need to believe in someone elses nonsense.

I guess it's just rife in the West, though I think it might have gone on in India for a long time as well.

RE: the Tibetan Buddhist stuff, maybe we should start a thread and try to discuss the issues which you have


That's probably not a good idea teehee.

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and which are very reasonable to think, half of me agrees with you, and half of me accepts what Buddhist scholars have concluded ie. that it is Buddhism. Maybe we could try and examine in detail what is and isn't Buddhist about Tibetan Buddhism. But in another thread.

It's more productive to consider the dhamma teachings without the identity structure construct, 'Buddhism'.
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