I was reading through a few things and I thought this translation of the Tao Te Ching by Archie Bahm was quite good. The whole text can be found online here. It’s interesting because it unfolds the t…

Not-self, not-self, not-self... or in conventional terms: me and my partner, my sister and her partner, my brother, and my mum and dad. And two cats and a dog. When the lockdown was threatening, we k…

I have been coming across this message in a few places recently... that because you observe them, you are not your feelings or your thoughts. That we should try to take a little distance from these v…

I was talking with a friend and thought I was making a sound distinction when I said the the Buddha didn't claim what he learned at enlightenment and then taught to his disciples was new. As in, he l…

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Novel Crononavirus is from what I gather big news all around the world...Hearing how it can spread (people can be infectious for two weeks before any signs of the infection presents itself), is caus…

Because of its general content, I feel almost afraid to post this missive, and fear that I may regret it. Yet, being in a rather desperate state, I feel a need to have some feedback. To ask the quest…

I would like to open this post with a quote from the Gnostic exegete Ptolemy:

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Not exactly Buddhist but just wanted to share this short story written by Andy Weir, author of The Martian (Matt Damon movie) and animated by Kurzgesagt.