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