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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
‘We’ Are Not In Control Of Climate Change At All
The artificial species called Capital corporations are
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
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 Existence Of Family And The Non-Existence Of Self
How we exist on many dimensions at once
How We Misunderstand AI
We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes
Today Is The Buddha’s Birthday, But He Can’t Come
This is the saddest Vesak I remember
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
You Don’t Have To Apologize For Being White
Just don’t be white
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?
How Anger Scars A House
Lessons from locking a kid in a room (not on purpose)
My Favorite Writing Tool Is My Wife
On the hidden labor of women
How I Almost Became White
As a brown person growing up in Columbus, Ohio, I almost became white
How Online Shopping Is Getting Me Through the Pandemic
How my world collapsed into home delivery
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 My Mind Was Colonized
Waking up from a nice dream into a global nightmare
Go To Bed Angry
Your fight about the messy garage might just be your body saying you need more sleep
The Sheer Fatigue Of Whatever Wave This Is
We’re sick and tired. Tired and sick.
The Power Of Being Useless
A lesson from the Taoist sage Zhuangzi
Life Without A Smartphone
It’s fine
Facebook Is Evil and I Quit
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the whole empire
A Morning In Quarantine
Just a day in tropical isolation
If You Want to Write Better, You Have to Write More
Quantity makes quality.
Cheat To Win: How To Really Think Like A Billionaire
Avoid work, avoid taxes, and cover it all up
What If Steve Jobs Made A TV?
His death killed a timeline where TVs didn’t suck
My Experience With Buddhism
Growing up into a faith
What Is Sri Lankan Identity Even?
Searching for an identity which may not exist