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Jakim Boaz
Hello everyone, I would like to share some of my experiences with the diamondway meditation group...
Thank you for your contribution Jakim.
It seems that these are common behaviours in these DWB groups - angrily blaming other people, nationalism, arrogance, and a lack of basic courtesy which doesn't even approach compassion or loving kindness.
To me this looks like a trickle-down effect of the example set by Nydahl, and I see it as more than just taking him literally, they are following his lead and mimicking his behaviour.
Returning to the letter, Nydahl uses the phrase "utimate meaning".
In Buddhism there is the ultimate, which is beyond conceptualisation and meaning, and then there is the relative sphere of the mundane.
Nydahl's "fundamentalism" is reflected in this phrase "ultimate meaning" and suggests that he has seriously misunderstood the doctrine of emptiness (which he translates instead as "space"). What he is doing here is the equivalent to "claiming to know God's will" which we also see in other fundamentalist fanatics from the "Abrahamic" religions.