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 (DIR) Post #9m1vMUkttPdSTaGsZE by ShaunBartone@ganesha.masto.host
       2019-08-19T02:30:46Z
       
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       Today I led a discussion with Buddhists on ‘Ditching the Raft’, i.e. letting go of Buddhist dharma when we no longer need it, esp. when modern science and social science does a better job of explaining things than ancient texts do. Evolution, modern psychology, quantum field theory, ecology and systems theory all do a better job of explaining cosmology than the dharma does. I don’t need Iron Age explanations of how the world is.
       
 (DIR) Post #9m1vRSFgczfw9y2Ifw by ShaunBartone@ganesha.masto.host
       2019-08-19T02:31:39Z
       
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       What Buddhism does is provide me as a practitioner with a personal experience of the interconnectedness, an experience that can be connected to a spiritual sense of connectedness and an ethics for actualizing that connectedness in the world. So that’s what I want from Buddhism. I just want to keep that awareness and experience of one-ness and connectedness.
       
 (DIR) Post #9m2J7sCMqcaFjugBIe by Flophouse_Sam@mastodon.social
       2019-08-19T06:57:00Z
       
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       @ShaunBartone I agree. I like the analogy of the raft too. Buddhist practice is a vehicle not a destination. Clinging to the dharma is still clinging. Other vehicles are available and there is no one correct expression of the Truth... Been enjoying your blog btw. Particularly your piece on the crucifixion. What does your practice involve, Shaun?