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This new post seems consonant with some of what you say here: https://open.substack.com/pub/joecarlsmith/p/on-attunement

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Yes! I was already planning on linking to it in my next link post 🫡

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I think the "crazy wisdom" view is a real minority position, found in Chan and some forms of tantra (especially in Tibet) but not often elsewhere. In most traditional Buddhist views I think it would be generally accepted that patience is a good thing, full stop.

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Fair - I should have said "some Buddhist teachers". I could have also contrasted the monastic contexts in which rules were not optional.

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