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Another possibility would involve the nature of sentience. Sentience is possessing a subjective mind. Any sentient being is vulnerable to delusion via confusing subjective content for objective content. If God is sentient, then God is also subject to delusion. If one wants to help a deluded...

Or just not believing in Absolute. One does not need to be atheistic for that. (Taoism's the only constant is Change.)

Personally, Hermes/Mercury is helpful to me for Jungian Animus development.

I'm more of eclectic solitary practicioner, so I can't really speak about Vajrayana. @Vajradhara would be the better one to ask about this. As for Self, from what I understand, any view that we would have regarding it would be a hindrance, including believing in no-Self. It's untraceable. See...

Outcasts.

Here is Joseph Campbell's take on it:

Hey! A place for others who want to escape from Samsara!

You might also want to check out the Four Dharma Seals. (Three Marks of Existence plus Nirvana.) The Four Dharma Seals are what the Mahayana use to tell Buddhadharma from something that kinda looks like Buddhism, but isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Dharma_Seals...

That would be theosophy, not Buddhism. ;)

Clearly explained.

Your intentional actions inform the habits you fall back on when you are unmindful. If you act skillfully when you are mindful, you will sow skillful habits to fall back on during the times when you are unmindful. Likewise, if you sow unskillful habits, you will reap unskillful results. The...

I would recommend The Heart of Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh

Even though I am Mahayana, there are quite a few Mahayana scriptures out there that I find rather dubious.

Tribalism, imo. I also consider universalism as a variation of tribalism (one tribe.)

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Here you go: you can either drink it or you can throw it. Your choice.

Karma has been known to run over dogmas. ;)

Vaj moved up to my neck of the woods and is now heavily involved in politics. She's pretty busy with that.

lol, what subject would you like to debate?