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How Science Played With Magic And Got Burnt
Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic
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What The Blood Sacrifice Of The Maya Can Teach Us About Today
Genital mutilation vs. the mutilation of the planet. What’s more gruesome?
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How Can We Fight Climate Change Without Sacrifice?
We can’t just ‘go green’. We have to go down on our knees
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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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What Should An Individual Do In The Face Of Collapse?
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Ideas from the Mahabharata and dates from the Kali Yuga
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How We Don’t Live Under Capitalism
The best things in life are free
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How Grief Is An Out Of Body Experience
Grief is pain felt in other bodies
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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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What To Do When Someone Dies
When someone close dies and you’re far away
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Investment Advice For The Apocalypse
Get right with god, with the earth, and with your community
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When The Climate Karma Comes Due
Climate change is a planetary reckoning. We have obviously fucked around with the wrong gods and found out.
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Hell Is A Queue
Fiction, I hope obviously
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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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How Video Games Become Religions
Did ancient religions begin this way too?
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Why Capitalism Is A Dead Faith
That’s me in the corner, losing my religion
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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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Why I—A Buddhist—Love Jesus
Some Christ for Christmas
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The First Freedom
The freedom to move.
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How Carmela Soprano Is A Dharmic Hero
Tony Soprano was TV's first anti-hero, but the show still has a hero. It's Carmela.
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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 Buddhism Supports Violence
And how it doesn’t
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My Experience With Buddhism
Growing up into a faith