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**teewHettive** · 05-09-2010, 03:26 AM

I've practiced in the Theravadan tradition for 30 years, in the Mahayana/Vajrayana tradition for 25 years, and the Dzogchen tradition for 5 years. My experience is that all the Buddhist traditions are teaching precisely the same thing.

The various paths of awaking and their associated dogmas/methods, though appearing different on the surface, are leading to the exact same realizations.

The benefit to practicing in multiple traditions is that the essence comes to the foreground, and the stories/methods recede to the background and become just the tools that they were intended to be without becoming concretizing into belief.

The challenge of practicing in multiple traditions is seeing beyond the packages and underneath the cultural accretions - just using the tools and noting results rather than cultivating identity and preference.

05-09-2010, 03:26 AM	#22
teewHettive Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 525 Senior Member	I've practiced in the Theravadan tradition for 30 years, in the Mahayana/Vajrayana tradition for 25 years, and the Dzogchen tradition for 5 years. My experience is that all the Buddhist traditions are teaching precisely the same thing. The various paths of awaking and their associated dogmas/methods, though appearing different on the surface, are leading to the exact same realizations. The benefit to practicing in multiple traditions is that the essence comes to the foreground, and the stories/methods recede to the background and become just the tools that they were intended to be without becoming concretizing into belief. The challenge of practicing in multiple traditions is seeing beyond the packages and underneath the cultural accretions - just using the tools and noting results rather than cultivating identity and preference.
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