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strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · May 25, 2026
"... sacredness is a stance toward the world, not an inherent quality of some bits of it; ... adopting the stance that everything is sacred generally leads to better outcomes than the stance that nothing is sacred." #DavidChapman https://vividness.live/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview #sacredness
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · May 25, 2026
"Secular modernism rejects ethics based on self-denial, as Christianity and Sutrayana ethics both are. On the other hand, secular modernism is wary of the phrase 'beyond good and evil'. ('Didn’t Hitler say that?')" #DavidChapman https://vividness.live/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview (1/2) #ethics #Buddhism #SecularModernism
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · May 25, 2026
"Secular ethics is basically Christian ethics minus the self-denial. If Tantra has any ethics at all, it is not like that. I would say it simply has no ethics. I consider that a non-problem; it just means you have to take your ethics from somewhere else. However, some Buddhist teachers would disagree." #DavidChapman https://vividness.live/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview (2/2)
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