32 Rupert's questions  - ' 32 dimensions' - a split? | a secular dharma
Channel: a secular dharma?
Date: 10/06/2021

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00:00:00 Rupert's questions to his secular dharma course group (see below).
00:02:40 German philosophers, "breaking up the dharma" into modules, problems of definitional language
00:07:30 Gary is in prison
00:08:00 "stories and  poetry rather than definitions". aphorisms. 
00:11:21 Self Not Self online course - Elfie's opinion of and on.
00:19:00 Americans in current SD course - Robert Wright
00:25:40 Status of SB's approach to defining dharma - it is moving too slowly. where is he going? is he just consolidating his buddhist market base? what other constraints?
00:33:00 jettisoning buddhism
00:37:00 First 2-year SD course - was it more orthodox? orthodoxies.
00:42:00 A Split?? Bringing people of like-mind together. Separation from buddhism.
00:51:00 fitting frameworks into buddhism, or buddhism into frameworks?
00:52:00 creating mechanisms for like-minded people to connect - ah, there's gary, he's not in prison
00:56:45 New videos on 'a secular dharma' youtube channel - Ellen interview - 
00:58:15 What will people actually make of all these videos we've posted? Should we find out?
01:00:00 separation of the two major narratives within the secular dharma course groups
01:02:10 forking - tribalism - division
01:04:00 SB's '32 dimensions' - hen+eggs analogy - avoiding 'hard' definitions of dharma

01:13:30 '32 dimensions of awakening' discussion - interpretations of ancient texts - critique