[Jyotir]

Originally Posted by revolver

People are certainly attached to their traditions, its one cause of a lot of fighting in the world, sadly.

Hi revolver,

In that case it is not the tradition per se - that is a misapprehension.

More likely it is misapplication - people are attached to prior form and are either unable or unwilling to adapt the truth content of the tradition to the context of their unique requirements in the current era. The reason any viable tradition has continuity is because any practitioner has successfully done this; it is actually the inverse of attachment.

Otherwise what happens is the attempt to preserve institutions which have not adapted truth content to the contemporary need - but have simply codified the past into a crystallized and inflexible dogma which does tempt that superficial attachment to form, and consequently requires external submission to the institution, by un-self-examined and complacent proponents and adherents alike. That is what preserves obsolete institutions, as distinct from viable traditions.

The conflict comes from attachment to superficial form and subsequent separativity, and consequent aggression toward exclusion.

~ J