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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
I had a conversation with for the podcast: “Vajrayana, Engineering and Jiu-jitsu”: I didn’t yet tweet about it as I’ve been busy helping my Mum transition into a residential home. 1/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
I am a slow thinking, ponderous speaker and I recommend listening to the podcast at 1.2x or faster. As with most podcasts, that seems to improve the listening experience significantly. 2/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
Here’s a thread synopsis of the podcast. The first five minutes or so are about my Buddhist practice and work background. A substantial first part of the conversation focuses on my series of journal posts exploring Culadasa’s TMI system.
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
Then we talk about how engineering training could be good preparation for Vajrayana meditation:
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
We discussed whether a staged, linear progressive presentation of Vajrayana adapted to contemporary culture is possible and/or appropriate: 5/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
About half way through we’re on to differences between Shamatha-Vipassana styles of meditation and Vajrayana. 6/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
That’s a recurring theme in my TMI series of posts, particularly days 7, 9, 10 and 11: 7/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
We discuss the sub-minds framework and its adaptation to meditation practice: 8/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
Then the importance of approaching meditation systems in terms of their principles, functions and failure modes. The failure mode for strictly linear progressive models is splitting (e.g. purity/impurity) which leads to a good-self/bad-self duality.
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @SpeakingSubject
Parletre ( ) has a recent post describing this failure mode from perspective of clinical psychology: “Life is incredibly difficult and the pull of fantasies of transcendence is incredibly strong.” 10/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
Also we discussed no-self as the end point of the Shamatha-Vipassana path. How Buddhist Tantra and the no-self path relate with each other:
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
Toward the end of the podcast we get on to the failure mode of guru abuse in Vajrayana and other systems. 12/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
I recommend understanding the teacher relationship in Vajrayana in terms of its principle and function: 13/n
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
Then finally we talk a bit about martial arts and jiu jitsu as an approach to Vajrayana practice:
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
After we recorded I naturally thought of much I didn’t say. Some of the topics, for example, embracing conflict, might be better understood with more unpacking. I’m intending to pick some of the themes that we visited and elaborate them into posts for
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo 24. kol
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_awbery_
Let me know if there’s material in the podcast that didn’t make sense to you, or that you disagreed with, or is a theme we touched on that you’d like to hear more about. /n=16
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