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No Brain Is An Island
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How individualism hurts the individual
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How The Self-Help Industry Is Built Around A Lie
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How can you help the problem?
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How I Believe In Rebirth
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If you believe in the Buddhist concept of not-self, rebirth follows
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Higher Consciousness, and The Incompetence To Do Anything About It
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How individuals can feel a higher consciousness, and be utterly incompetent to act on it
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A Normal Person From 20 Years Ago Would Look Like A Monk Today
Remembering life before the digital age
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1) Big Bang Baby: My First And Only Birth
How I was born in the Big Bang
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0.3) The Superunknown
The 'dark' and 'black' nature of most reality.
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You Are Not Your Name
Meditations on the self and names
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How Self-Help Is Not Helping
Attachment to the self is the root of suffering, not the way out
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The Flowers Of Wrath
On great evil, our dharma to fight that evil, and also the deep hopelessness of it all
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The Existence Of Family And The Non-Existence Of Self
How we exist on many dimensions at once
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Worshiping The Rich
Beggars at my doorstep, bowing before the wrong person
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At Least It’s A Good Time For Philosophy
When there’s blood on the streets, do philosophy
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Today Is The Buddha’s Birthday, But He Can’t Come
This is the saddest Vesak I remember
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Three Happy Moments
In a rather stressful life
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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
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The Illusion Of Being Alone
We are born together and die together
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How Self Help Is A Dead End (A Buddhist View)
If there is no-self, how do you help it?
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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?
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The Buddha’s Words — Mindfulness
What it means to live forever, in a Buddhist sense
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The Buddha’s Words — The Pairs
A wholly inadequate Medium trip through the Dhammapada
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How Dualism Is Killing The West
Try both. Or many. Try more.
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How TENET Is Like A Zen Koan
Meditation by gunfire
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How Intermittent Fasting Is A Buddhist Diet
Eating as monks do
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The First 30 Minutes Of Meditation
The snow globe behind my eyes
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How Buddhism Supports Violence
And how it doesn’t
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My Experience With Buddhism
Growing up into a faith
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Sri Lanka’s Corrupted Monks
Buddhists should fight hatred, not foment it