Wow, I don't know if I read this before and didn't remember it (though I usually comment on every post I read - smile). But this is fantastic and has served as the model for my blog : Stealth Dharma (private) where non-Buddhist buddies of mine are taking the Aro course and discussing a text on neuroscience stuff.
But , as you say, it is not stealth really because I am very up front on what we are doing.
I think your clever idea of preserving the dharma in secular form is pratical and benefitial. Well said, well done. I hope this blog and your others lead to a book someday that does "stealth dharma" for populations who would not otherwise be receptive to the "sugary, weak, hypocritical, and unrealistic" versions of Buddhism out there -- not to mention the lack of efficient transmission power in culturally-soaked, the jargon-laden, the east-west dichotomizers, the zenophilic and more versions of Buddhism to much of the world.
You want to preserve Buddhism? There is only one way. Get rid of secrecy (completely). Get rid of Lamaism (completely). Make Buddhism something utterly open and utterly published, even for free. Make a site like www.accesstoinsight.org for Aro, which has every single Terma/tantra/teaching openly published, searchable, indexed, etc... In other words, the only way to keep Buddhism is to give it away. Buddhism is being destroyed because you try to keep it to yourself, you try to control it, control how it's perceived, who gets to learn what bits, you try to preserve Lamaism and useless Tibetan baggage and so on. I am sure you know all this. It's up to you to either do it or not. You don't have to get anyone's permission. The rules only exist if you honor them, but no one can force you to honor even one rule.
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14 Mar 2011
Wow, I don't know if I read this before and didn't remember it (though I usually comment on every post I read - smile). But this is fantastic and has served as the model for my blog : Stealth Dharma (private) where non-Buddhist buddies of mine are taking the Aro course and discussing a text on neuroscience stuff.
But , as you say, it is not stealth really because I am very up front on what we are doing.
I think your clever idea of preserving the dharma in secular form is pratical and benefitial. Well said, well done. I hope this blog and your others lead to a book someday that does "stealth dharma" for populations who would not otherwise be receptive to the "sugary, weak, hypocritical, and unrealistic" versions of Buddhism out there -- not to mention the lack of efficient transmission power in culturally-soaked, the jargon-laden, the east-west dichotomizers, the zenophilic and more versions of Buddhism to much of the world.
You want to preserve
10 Jul 2011
You want to preserve Buddhism? There is only one way. Get rid of secrecy (completely). Get rid of Lamaism (completely). Make Buddhism something utterly open and utterly published, even for free. Make a site like www.accesstoinsight.org for Aro, which has every single Terma/tantra/teaching openly published, searchable, indexed, etc... In other words, the only way to keep Buddhism is to give it away. Buddhism is being destroyed because you try to keep it to yourself, you try to control it, control how it's perceived, who gets to learn what bits, you try to preserve Lamaism and useless Tibetan baggage and so on. I am sure you know all this. It's up to you to either do it or not. You don't have to get anyone's permission. The rules only exist if you honor them, but no one can force you to honor even one rule.
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