Regardless of issues of proprietary terminology, wars over who discovered what, accusations of various kinds, possible personality disorders, psychopathy and/or other forms of mental illness, cults of personality, politics, who is in what club or clique, and all the rest of that sort of human muck, there is clearly nothing wrong with the following things:
Paying attention to the beauty of the sensate world.
Paying attention to this moment as it is.
Paying attention to feelings.
Paying attention to things happening on their own.
Cultivating peace and clarity.
Aspiring to one's vision of a mind well-trained in freedom from suffering and dwelling in happiness.
Attending to what leads to what, specifically what leads to happiness and what leads to suffering.
Enjoying enjoyable and clear mind states.
Noticing the difference between superficial feelings and core drives.
Examining the structure of the process of identity creation.
Sorting out what mundane aspects of social interaction with various people are conducive to good practice and which aren't for one's self.
Engaging with the advice of those of those with long and deep experience in these things and taking what is good and leaving what is not.
Doing the experiment for one's self and relying upon that as the first basis of certainty and keeping an open mind that balances skepticism and empowerment, not that these are necessarily opposites.
Avoiding entangling relationships with people with Cluster B personality disorders or the strong possibility of those: not pointing any fingers here, just making a good generic point. Link here:
Cluter B Personality DisordersI wish you the best in those things and can't possibly fault your aspirations and your interest in following those practices and seeing where they lead.
Daniel
