title: Pitfalls of Modern Spirituality
Rob Burbea on Modern, Mainstream Buddhism in the West
- Common western, consensus buddhism is so obsessed with the individual’s inner growth and path
- End up missing the outer socio-economic-environmental crises
- Can reinforce the sense of separation
- Oneness lend itself to a kind of equanimity (that is held as THE goal)
- If everything is one it doesn’t matter if that forest dies
- Easy for it to be taken too far (not wrong, but incomplete)
- Archetypes are extremely limited
- Only calm Buddha, where is the warrior, the erotic?
- That single archetype won’t be enough to fire up activists
- The basis of Buddhist teaching (Four Noble Truths) focus on “healing of suffering”
- Quieting, reducing or healing the Self
- Different than growing the wildness, uniqueness, individuation of the Self
- Mindfulness is one approach, we need flame, passion, sexuality and much more
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Created on: 2021-03-21 Inspired by: Rob Burbea Link: Emerge Podcast #1: https://castbox.fm/vb/85859434 (Start at 41:00) Related: Buddhism | Book - Approaching Vajrayana - David Chapman
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