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Approaching Vajrayana
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Approaching Vajrayana
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Approaching systems of meaning
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The futile quest for certainty
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Approaches to religion
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On the path
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Off the path
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Mixed feelings
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Opinions and curiosity
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Yanas: vehicles and their functions
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Yanas, contradictions, and understanding
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Yanas are not Buddhist sects
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Vajrayana is not Tibetan Buddhism (and vice versa)
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Yana shock
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Yana slip
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Understanding Buddhist Tantra by contrast
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Sutrayana
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Sutra and Tantra compared
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Sutra, Tantra, and the modern worldview
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Renunciation is the engine for most of Buddhism
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How does “Sutrayana” relate to actual Buddhisms?
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The Tantric Base: Spacious Passion
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The power of an attitude
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There are no spiritual problems
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Your self is not a spiritual obstacle
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Tantra is anti-spiritual
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Nothing special
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Passionate connections
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Spacious freedom
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Emptiness in the Aro gTér
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The Tantric Path: Unclogging Energy
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Buddhist tantra is not about techniques
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Free-flowing energy
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Tantra and flow
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Unclogging
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Unclogging Consensus Buddhism
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Unclogging and traditional Buddhism
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Our Buddhism goes to eleven
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Yidams: a godless approach, naturally!
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Wrathful practice
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Charnel ground
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Pure Land
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A killer app for modern Vajrayana?
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The Tantric Aim: What is Vajrayana for?
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What do you want Buddhism for?
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⚒︎ Nobility
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How to learn Buddhist tantra
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Dzogchen
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Truth and methods
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Principles and functions
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Beyond emptiness: Zen, Tantra, and Dzogchen
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Why Dzogchen?
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The scarcity of Dzogchen
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No holiness—vastness!
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Visionary truth, objective truth
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No cosmic justice
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We matter to Buddhism
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Responsibility
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Endangered species
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Twilight of the isms
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“Buddhism is for boomers”
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“Buddhism” is an obstacle to Buddhism
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Thought soup
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Buddhism shattered
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Consumerism, Fundamentalism, and Buddhism
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A Dzogchen-shaped hole in the culture
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Three percent of the Dharma
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Reinventing Buddhist Tantra
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Reinventing Buddhist Tantra: Annotated Table of Contents
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Why I should shut up
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“Now you something say”
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Diversity, generalization, and authenticity
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Essential Buddhism
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What would “modern Buddhist tantra” even mean?
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Buddhism in the West
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Naturalizing Buddhist tantra
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Degrees of naturalization
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Four strategies for naturalizing religion
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Why did magic matter in Buddhist tantra?
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Reinventing Buddhist tantra badly
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Getting tantra wrong: The Roach/McNally fiasco
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Pussy-dripping goddesses with chainsaws
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Tantric Theravada and modern Vajrayana
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Shambhala Training was secular Vajrayana
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Some preliminaries: ngöndro
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Back to the future
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The Dark Age and Buddhism’s future
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After Buddhist Ethics
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“Buddhist ethics” is a fraud
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“Buddhist ethics” is not Buddhist ethics
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Traditional Buddhism has no ethical system
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Buddhist morality is Medieval
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How Asian Buddhism imported Western ethics
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Why Westerners rebranded secular ethics as "Buddhist" and banned Tantra
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FTFY Buddhist ethics
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“Ethics” is advertising
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The mindfulness crisis and the end of Consensus Buddhism
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“Buddhist ethics”: a Tantric critique
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Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence
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Better Buddhisms: A developmental approach
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Emptiness, form, and Dzogchen ethics
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Consensus Buddhism
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The Crumbling Buddhist Consensus: Summary
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The Crumbling Buddhist Consensus: Overview
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“Nice” Buddhism
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Traditional and modern Buddhism: an illusory duopoly
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Inclusion, exclusion, unity and diversity
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How Buddhism became Consensus
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The Making of Buddhist Modernism
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Modern Buddhism: Forged as anti-colonial weapon
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A new World Religion
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Zen vs. the U.S. Navy
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The King of Siam invents Western Buddhism
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Theravada reinvents meditation
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What the Buddha REALLY said
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Protestant Buddhism
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Problems with scripture
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The Heart-Healthy Sutra
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What is called enlightenment?
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The essence of all religions?
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Effing the ineffable
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Are mystical experiences metaphysical evidence?
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Wholeness, connection, and meditation: Competing visions
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Epistemology and enlightenment
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What got left out of “meditation”?
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Disgust, horror, and Western Buddhism
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One Dharma. Whose?
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One Dharma, Zero Tantra
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Buddhist disagreements
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Constructive religious disagreement
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How not to argue about Buddhism
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Uncontroversial Buddhist lineages
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Buddhism and football
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Preventing holy wars, by consensus
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On criticizing fellow Buddhists
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Consensus Buddhism: what"s left
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