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Buddhism/and agency

18 Nov 2025 - 19 Nov 2025
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    • My naive take is that Buddhism is kind of anti-agency, although that is no doubt oversimplified. Agency is an egoic concept and Buddhism sees through that, sees it as a kind of illusion.
    • Well… “Buddhism” really isn’t a thing. It’s vast family of dissimilar religions with partly-shared origins. Claude’s answer is sort of an impressionistic mashup of Hinayana and Mahayana.
    • I’d answer from pov of Vajrayana. But that’s also two quite different things… This sermon was from pov of Dzogchen within Vajrayana.
    • We translated kadag as “basic OKness” and lhundrup as “radiating open-hearted activity.”