[tern]

For what it's worth, the "faith in lineage" stuff doesn't require magical thinking and is pretty helpful. The downside of it from my perspective is it's just a lot of stuff to learn and a bit complicated to maintain in a Western cultural context. Plenty of people are making progress with more stripped-down approaches that rhyme better with the scientific worldview.

[jdkoeck]

The main problem with « faith in lineage » is that it’s institutionalized argument by authority. It’s a giant bias.

[tern]

It's more like "adopting the view that this will work," because doing that works. It's a pragmatic argument, in practice. Dogma certainly creeps in when you get away from practice into politics, but "bias" isn't a concern in awakening. It's all about what works.

[leashless]

However, it turns out not to be necessary or desirable for this approach. It might be necessary or useful for some practices, but not this one!