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Making a Kangling for Chöd

47 points by exolymph 5y ago

everybodyknows 5y ago
> If you do stressful work while sitting at a desk, as so many people do nowadays, you are almost certain to have a shortened, chronically tense psoas—a major cause of lower back pain. Yoga instructors talk a lot about the psoas. http://www.foundationyoga.com/sore-back-cranky-hips-your-psoas-could-be-why/ http://www.foundationyoga.com/sore-back-cranky-hips-your-pso...
hosh 5y ago
Oh yeah, David Chapman wrote that stuff. Hard to say how tongue in cheek he was, but it was a part of his critiques on Western Buddhism. The actual content describing Chöd seems accurate to me. (No, I have never played or handled a Kangling). I didn’t see anything tongue-in-cheek or satirical in the article. I think he wrote it up to mess with the sensibilities that underpin what he calls Western Consensus Buddhism.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
  Good guess, I think: >> Buddhism for Vampires began as a joke, over on Vividness. I was writing about the hijacking of Buddhism by New Age space cadets, psychotherapists, politically-correct self-righteous bigots, and “nice” people who fear the real world and want to play make-believe instead. https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/ https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/
  - hosh 5y ago
    Yup. On his Meaningness blog, Chapman posted extensive essays about Western Consensus “nice” Buddhism, and critiquing it. There were also a suggestion the Buddhist Tantra was more in lined with Western values (and an analysis on why), but it was not “nice”. (There were also issues about not getting proper training, or practitioners trying to fill in gaps with Shaiva Tantra and derivatives). He had mentioned the vampire stuff on those blog posts, but I had thought he was satirizing by exaggerating the content. Hence the surprise for me: the content was not dramatized, just some superficial window dressing. That really tickled me.
Jun8 5y ago
A fictional form of Chöd (not to be confused by chod which is a swear word in India and Pakistan) ritual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d) will be familiar to readers of Stephen's King's It (https://heroism.fandom.com/wiki/Ritual_of_Ch%C3%BCd https://heroism.fandom.com/wiki/Ritual_of_Ch%C3%BCd) where it is used to beat Pennywise. Here's a Quora answer that summarizes the ritual: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-ritual-of-chud-in-Stephen-Kings-book-called-The-Dark-Tower https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-ritual-of-chud-in-Stephen-...
yewenjie 5y ago
There is an westernized version of Chöd, developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, which is much much less dark and arguably inauthentic.
YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
It... sounds like a kazoo?

47 points by exolymph 5y ago

> If you do stressful work while sitting at a desk, as so many people do nowadays, you are almost certain to have a shortened, chronically tense psoas—a major cause of lower back pain. Yoga instructors talk a lot about the psoas. http://www.foundationyoga.com/sore-back-cranky-hips-your-psoas-could-be-why/ http://www.foundationyoga.com/sore-back-cranky-hips-your-pso...

hosh 5y ago

Oh yeah, David Chapman wrote that stuff. Hard to say how tongue in cheek he was, but it was a part of his critiques on Western Buddhism. The actual content describing Chöd seems accurate to me. (No, I have never played or handled a Kangling). I didn’t see anything tongue-in-cheek or satirical in the article. I think he wrote it up to mess with the sensibilities that underpin what he calls Western Consensus Buddhism.

YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Good guess, I think: >> Buddhism for Vampires began as a joke, over on Vividness. I was writing about the hijacking of Buddhism by New Age space cadets, psychotherapists, politically-correct self-righteous bigots, and “nice” people who fear the real world and want to play make-believe instead. https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/ https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/
- hosh 5y ago
  Yup. On his Meaningness blog, Chapman posted extensive essays about Western Consensus “nice” Buddhism, and critiquing it. There were also a suggestion the Buddhist Tantra was more in lined with Western values (and an analysis on why), but it was not “nice”. (There were also issues about not getting proper training, or practitioners trying to fill in gaps with Shaiva Tantra and derivatives). He had mentioned the vampire stuff on those blog posts, but I had thought he was satirizing by exaggerating the content. Hence the surprise for me: the content was not dramatized, just some superficial window dressing. That really tickled me.

Jun8 5y ago

A fictional form of Chöd (not to be confused by chod which is a swear word in India and Pakistan) ritual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d) will be familiar to readers of Stephen's King's It (https://heroism.fandom.com/wiki/Ritual_of_Ch%C3%BCd https://heroism.fandom.com/wiki/Ritual_of_Ch%C3%BCd) where it is used to beat Pennywise. Here's a Quora answer that summarizes the ritual: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-ritual-of-chud-in-Stephen-Kings-book-called-The-Dark-Tower https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-ritual-of-chud-in-Stephen-...

yewenjie 5y ago

There is an westernized version of Chöd, developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, which is much much less dark and arguably inauthentic.

YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago

It... sounds like a kazoo?