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"Mind cannot objectify it; thinking cannot describe it. Just step back and carry on, and avoid offending anyone you face. At the ancient dock, the wind and moon are cold and clear. At night the boat floats peacefully in the land of lapis lazuli." – Dogen Zenji

If you want to know why American convert Buddhism is such a politically homogenous crew, just look at the famous Ram Dass quote about going home over the holidays to test your enlightenment. Notice how that assumes that everyone he’s speaking to left home at some point, went to

One of the (many) problems with the term "non-duality" is that there tons of different non-dualities and they don't all accord. For example, when most people use the term they're referring to an experience of a-conceptual awareness, of pure being-ness. What exactly is that the

What do we know about long-term/advanced meditation and physiology? We are delighted to share the preprint of our latest review: "Advanced and long-term meditation and the autonomic nervous system: a review and synthesis" Thank you so much to the wonderful Idil Sezer for

What are the best multiplayer meditation practices for cultivating jhāna in Interbe.ing? Well, let's look at the data and find out!

Inquire after me: “What if I weren’t attached to this gross body?” “What if I weren’t attached to visionary/mystical experiences?” “What if I wasn’t attached to formlessness?”

If your dharma isn’t apocalyptimistic, what is it even good for? 😉

The Apocaloptimistic Dharma retreat, in the mountains above Boulder, is now open for registration: rmerc.org/events/apocalo…

Buddhaverses don’t arise from Buddhas, they arise with Buddhas.

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How is "vipassana jhāna" different from other kinds of jhāna?

Everyone is a Buddha

in this talk, I review findings and provide a theory for how it's paradoxically possible to shut down consciousness from within the disintegration hypothesis proposes that hardcore insight practice induces decoherence in one's reality model, leading to an inferential failure to

I created an interactive visualization of theVajrayana Buddhist model called The Five Buddha Families. bit.ly/five-buddha-fa…

"[P]art of my own evolution, especially through training at the Monastic Academy, has been this inquiry into ethics—specifically, how ethical responsiveness is missing in a lot of Buddhist spaces. That’s especially problematic in a time of planetary crisis." – Daniel Thorson

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The Completion of Vipassana Jhāna open.substack.com/pub/buddhistge…

There are many ways to jhāna... What's your doorway?

🆕📜 The Breath Kasina (🔗 below)

You can wake up to the reality that you are not any thing in the field, but you can also live into the reality of being the field.