It's more that the parts you're uncomfortable with are kind of reliable techniques that will achieve certain insights or mindstates if you keep it connected to the theological base. The issue is when those techniques are mistaken for the actual substance of the religion by the practitioner (much like someone in the Golden Dawn who interprets "Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law" as "do whatever you want".)
That's not what Buddha says though (Or Catholicism.) Friends are great, Buddha and his followers had friends. Buddha says "Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life." Jesus exhorts people to peace, communion, and love at an individual as well as a collective level.
No, attachment isn't liking a thing, removing attachment is recognising the ultimate impermanence of the thing as an indivisible part of a changing, shifting, interconnected reality and accepting joyfully that inevitable change.
Yeah, Western Buddhists get a taste of that, especially when applied to the Self, and it turns them utterly insufferable (it also turns a lot of Tradcaths insufferable too if they get the Catholic version, but they're already awful so it's hard to notice)
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It's more that the parts you're uncomfortable with are kind of reliable techniques that will achieve certain insights or mindstates if you keep it connected to the theological base. The issue is when those techniques are mistaken for the actual substance of the religion by the practitioner (much like someone in the Golden Dawn who interprets "Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law" as "do whatever you want".)
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That's not what Buddha says though (Or Catholicism.) Friends are great, Buddha and his followers had friends. Buddha says "Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life." Jesus exhorts people to peace, communion, and love at an individual as well as a collective level.
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No, attachment isn't liking a thing, removing attachment is recognising the ultimate impermanence of the thing as an indivisible part of a changing, shifting, interconnected reality and accepting joyfully that inevitable change.
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Yeah, Western Buddhists get a taste of that, especially when applied to the Self, and it turns them utterly insufferable (it also turns a lot of Tradcaths insufferable too if they get the Catholic version, but they're already awful so it's hard to notice)
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