If we could just manage to be ordinary, we would not have the responsibility of living up to our potential. Fortunately, ordinariness is impossible.| Meaningness
Specialness is a sense of having been picked out for destiny by the Cosmic Plan. That causes you and others much trouble.| Meaningness
There is one dimension to that you touch on but I think needs a little further elaboration: Lamas in the west were actually far more powerful than they ever were in Tibet, at least within the bubble of their own little organizations. In Tibet, even lamas with a lot of political power were subject to all sorts of constraints, checks and balances. Although many people might have regarded them as gods, there were always other Tibetans willing to torture and kill them if they crossed the wrong bo...| vividness.live
How contemporary Vajrayana coaching can retain the essential aspects of the Dzogchen learning relationship| Vajrayana Now
I find it quite interesting that you use so much the term “Consesus Buddhism”. I have never heard about it, and I also cannot find a definition of it, but you use it in a way that seems that readers should be familiar with it.| vividness.live
Coauthored by Charlie Awbery and David Chapman and cross-posted to our sites Vajrayana Now and Vividness. We wrote this page to support Guru vs. the Learning Relationship, the seventh and final discussion in Evolving Ground’s foundational series with the Stoa.| Vividness
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“Not about techniques” is a somewhat unusual view.| Vividness
