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@KtunaxaAmerika @AngelicaOung The article talks about Sam Harris, but I have a lot of time for what Sam Harris is trying to teach. Buddhism is not about escaping the self or the moment, its about being present in it.

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@KtunaxaAmerika @AngelicaOung He is basically saying that Buddhism tells you to go along with the flow. Its essentially nihilism as there is no self, so its a perfect fit for neo-liberalism.

But its a complete misunderstanding of Buddhism, in the East or the West, and I have studied in both

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@KtunaxaAmerika @AngelicaOung yes but his characterization is wrong. He misunderstands what suffering means in a buddhist sense. He is getting confused with like, stress-relief mindfulness practices

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@AngelicaOung @KtunaxaAmerika Some of those people might be using the symbols of buddhism and hinduism or whatever, but that is nothing new.

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@AngelicaOung @KtunaxaAmerika Who waters down Buddhism?
Everything in this article is wrong. It's Žižek talking about Buddhism while not understanding what Buddhism is and getting it mixed up with stress-relief meditation and mindfulness.

What you are talking about is modern me-culture spirituality

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@KtunaxaAmerika @AngelicaOung Just complete nonsense, people who do not understand Buddhism, dissecting arguments on Buddhism from people who know nothing of Buddhism .

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@AngelicaOung Really have overdone yourself with this one.
"First, you have a philosophy that reduces all that is of value in humanity to the self, then you exalt a religion where the highest state is to negate the self"

Like, where does that even come from?

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@AngelicaOung It was so cheap when I went a few years ago

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@AngelicaOung I think would have a better route to modernity than the chaos after 1911

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@AngelicaOung The big alternative history for me is WHAT IF China had gone down the Kang Youwei constitutional monarchy route instead

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@AngelicaOung Or Zhou Enlai would have been the leader, the most competent man in China

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@AngelicaOung There was a whole class of Soviet-trained cadres at Yanan who Moscow were training to be the competent bureaucrat class, and Mao purged them. I think China would have looked a lot more like semi-functional Soviet countries

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@AngelicaOung Use Taobao like an adult

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@AngelicaOung @tphuang thats a single person who works in a massage parlor. Try speaking to more educated people and you will get a different response

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@AngelicaOung Ok

Just think would do you some good

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@AngelicaOung U.S. has the secret sauce for success but they have decided to throw the sauce bottle at the wall

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@AngelicaOung I have a bunch of screenshots somewhere from 2019 when they announced the green card for long term residents
Weibo decided that this would mean China would turn into Europe and Muslims would rape Chinese women