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Why And How I'm Religious
Apropros of nothing
The Illusion Of Control
On the dog and cat constantly interrupting me.
Why I'm Fasting This Ramadan
Despite being Buddhist
Meeting Animals In Prayer
The most high and the low
Being Buddhist For A Day
Keeping the 10 precepts, and failing
Children and 'Enlightenment' and Enlightenment
I had to yell at the children so many times to finish this
The Tyranny Of ‘We’
The deep problem of human supremacy
The Universe Is Really Telling You Something
Lessons from Einstein, Magritte, and the Tooth Fairy
When A Buddhist Goes Fishing
Killing and having killing done for you
No Brain Is An Island
How individualism hurts the individual
How The Self-Help Industry Is Built Around A Lie
How can you help the problem?
How I Believe In Rebirth
If you believe in the Buddhist concept of not-self, rebirth follows
Higher Consciousness, and The Incompetence To Do Anything About It
How individuals can feel a higher consciousness, and be utterly incompetent to act on it
A Normal Person From 20 Years Ago Would Look Like A Monk Today
Remembering life before the digital age
1) Big Bang Baby: My First And Only Birth
How I was born in the Big Bang
0.3) The Superunknown
The 'dark' and 'black' nature of most reality.
You Are Not Your Name
Meditations on the self and names
How Self-Help Is Not Helping
Attachment to the self is the root of suffering, not the way out
The Flowers Of Wrath
On great evil, our dharma to fight that evil, and also the deep hopelessness of it all
The Existence Of Family And The Non-Existence Of Self
How we exist on many dimensions at once
Worshiping The Rich
Beggars at my doorstep, bowing before the wrong person
At Least It’s A Good Time For Philosophy
When there’s blood on the streets, do philosophy
Today Is The Buddha’s Birthday, But He Can’t Come
This is the saddest Vesak I remember
Three Happy Moments
In a rather stressful life
You Don’t Have To Be You All The Time
Being a citizen and a consumer all the time sucks. We’re social animals and being disconnected hurts
The Illusion Of Being Alone
We are born together and die together
How Self Help Is A Dead End (A Buddhist View)
If there is no-self, how do you help it?
How Buddhist 'No-Self' Can Solve Social Problems
What if pandemics, 'weight', and mental health can't be solved at the individual level at all?
The Buddha’s Words — Mindfulness
What it means to live forever, in a Buddhist sense
The Buddha’s Words — The Pairs
A wholly inadequate Medium trip through the Dhammapada
How Dualism Is Killing The West
Try both. Or many. Try more.
How TENET Is Like A Zen Koan
Meditation by gunfire
How Intermittent Fasting Is A Buddhist Diet
Eating as monks do
The First 30 Minutes Of Meditation
The snow globe behind my eyes
How Buddhism Supports Violence
And how it doesn’t
My Experience With Buddhism
Growing up into a faith
Sri Lanka’s Corrupted Monks
Buddhists should fight hatred, not foment it