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May 10, 2022 Emotional Maturity / Everything Everywhere All At Once / growth / meditation / movies / psychotherapy / Spirituality

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” and The Arc of Emotional Maturity

Firstly, apologies for the lack of posts of late! Momentum is really strange, it snowballs one way or the other.

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March 14, 2022 Absurdism / bodhisattva / Buddhism / Death / grief / Spirituality / suffering

Nihilism or Optimism? More Thoughts on Grief

(My apologies in advance for writing about grief again. I wish my mind was elsewhere, but I suppose that’s what

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February 15, 2022 Buddhism / Death / grief / mental health / mindfulness / Reflection

Reflecting on the Death of a Parent

My dad passed away about 17 days ago now. This is the first time I’ve tried to write about it

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February 4, 2022 anxiety / Buddhism / Compassion / feelings / meditation / mindfulness / self-compassion / Spirituality

The Joy of The Present: Dealing With Anxiety Using Mindfulness

Most of us accept the reality given to us. That includes our thoughts and feelings. After all, if we think

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December 5, 2021 Buddhism / Compassion / Death / Meaning / Mortality / psychedelics / Spirituality / suffering

The Dance of Life: The Endless Sway Between Joy, Power and Pain

“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.”-

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November 23, 2021 Aging / Death / suffering

Death and Illness: Dealing With Parents, Dukkha and Old Age

I’m back in California, spending Thanksgiving week with my parents. Because of COVID, I haven’t seen much of them over

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October 21, 2021 bodhisattva / Buddhism / socialism / Yeats / Zen

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

One hundred years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote the poem “The Second Coming.” Much was happening in the world when

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October 6, 2021 anxiety / Buddhism / impermanence / mental health / mindfulness

How the Concept of Impermanence Can Help Anxiety-Ridden Millennials

I wrote something for Tricycle magazine! An excerpt to the beginning for you to peruse: During a lecture, a student asked Shunryu Suzuki, the

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September 2, 2021 Buddhism / capitalism / meditation / mental health / neoliberalism

How to Break Through Our Neoliberal Selves

Just a quick post, I wrote something for Mental Hellth, a newsletter about mental health and capitalism. The full version

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August 2, 2021 Koan / meditation / mindfulness / Spirituality / Zen

My Most Important Meditation Insight

I’ve written ad nauseam about meditation, and you’re probably tired of hearing about it. But it is an endlessly important

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July 29, 2021 Buddhism / Koan / Zen

You Are Not Important; You Are the Most Important Being Here

In the cosmic, grand scheme of things, our lives don’t mean a whole lot. Or they are the most important

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July 26, 2021 Buddhism / meditation / psychotherapy / Spirituality / suffering

Suffering With Grace

It’s been a while! I have no excuses really except that I was on vacation and tried to write a

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July 4, 2021 Absurdism / Buddhism / Illusion / Rational / Spirituality

Beyond Reason: Thoughts on The Rational and The Illusion of Life

Recently I’ve had the thought that rationality or even science is not “objective” but is its own worldview. It may

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June 22, 2021 anatta / Bodhicitta / Buddhism / Compassion / Dependent Origination / psychotherapy / tonglen

Bodhicitta in the Time of Asian Hate

I recently published my first piece for Tricycle magazine. To be honest, it’s been nerve-wracking as hell to have it

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June 13, 2021 Buddhism / Reason / Religion / Spirituality

The Wisdom of Unreason or Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater

Once a monk made a request of Joshu. “I have just entered the monastery,” he said. “Please give me instructions,

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