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Zen

• Rōhatsu (added 2024-11-27, updated 2024-12-08)
• Bodhisattva (added 2024-11-26)
• Zen Peacemakers Rule and Precepts (added 2024-10-17)
• The "just" in "just sitting" (added 2024-05-28, updated 2024-09-10)
• Zen Koans (added 2024-04-25, updated 2024-08-14)
• Notes from six months of studying and practicing Zen (added 2024-07-07, updated 2024-07-13)
• Self-fulfilling activity (added 2024-07-07)
• Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (added 2024-03-31)
• Acceptance (added 2024-03-09)
• Zen (added 2024-01-10, updated 2024-02-24)
• Some Zen Practices (added 2024-01-06)

Zen notes

• Zen Model of Awakening (added 2024-12-22)
• The Heart Sutra (added 2024-12-15)
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice For Difficult Times (added 2024-12-07, updated 2024-12-10)
• Notes from "Ending Dukkha: Taking Care of this Precious Life (2 of 2)" (added 2024-11-22)
• Notes from "Ending Dukkha: Taking Care of this Precious Life (1 of 2)" (added 2024-11-08)
• Notes from "How To Live When A Loved One Dies" (added 2024-09-24, updated 2024-10-19)
• Some bits from 8 English Translations of Genjokoan (added 2024-10-18)
• Notes from "It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life" (added 2024-08-17)
• Opening to Oneness: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts (added 2024-05-26, updated 2024-06-29)
• Dogen Zenji Goroku: Sayings of Zen Master Dogen (added 2024-06-26, updated 2024-06-29)
• Dropping Ashes on the Buddha (added 2024-06-13, updated 2024-06-14)
• Inner Nonviolence and Complete Acceptance (added 2024-05-30)
• Shikantaza: Having the Guts to Just Sit and Let Go of Doing Anything (added 2024-05-24)
• Zazen – Our Total Response to Life (added 2024-05-11)
• Good Life: A Zen Precepts Retreat (added 2024-05-11)
• Cultivating Awareness Every Moment (added 2024-04-28)
• The Practice of Not-Knowing (added 2024-04-26)
• Kensho: Heart of Zen (added 2024-04-11, updated 2024-04-16)
• The Sutra of Hui-neng and his commentary on the Diamond Sutra (added 2024-04-07)
• Zen Seeds (added 2024-03-23)
• The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh (added 2024-03-15)
• No mud, no lotus (added 2024-03-04)
• The Zen of You and Me: conflict (added 2024-02-24)
• The Zen of You and Me (added 2024-02-21)
• 10 Fields of Zen Practice - Zen Studies Podcast (added 2024-02-19)
• Deep Hope (added 2024-02-18)
• Introduction to Zen Training (added 2024-02-06)
• The Eight Gates of Zen (added 2024-01-20)
• Zen in the Art of Archery (added 2024-01-14)
• Rational Zen (added 2024-01-14)

Longer form

• Antifragile (added 2024-12-29, updated 2024-12-30)
• Yield word salad (added 2024-12-27)
• Layers (added 2023-01-30, updated 2024-12-27)
• LSD (added 2024-08-13, updated 2024-12-26)
• The ends of various seesaws (added 2024-12-23, updated 2024-12-25)
• Like a net in a river (added 2024-12-24)
• Like a ball in a pinball machine (added 2024-12-24)
• Unfinishableness (added 2024-12-22)
• Trusting the Gold (and related) (added 2024-12-22)
• Precepts remixing (added 2024-12-20)
• Gates, fields, paths (added 2024-12-19, updated 2024-12-20)
• Direction (/stance) word salad (added 2024-12-19)
• Wider RAIN practice (added 2023-12-04, updated 2024-12-17)
• Getting in and out of the way of happiness (added 2024-12-16)
• Self-acceptance, another round (added 2024-12-15)
• Restless word salad (added 2024-12-14)
• My (applied) philosophy (added 2024-07-07, updated 2024-12-14)
• Useful word salad (added 2024-12-13)
• Mistakes, perfection, forgiveness (added 2024-12-02)
• This is it (added 2024-11-30)
• Paradoxes (added 2024-11-24)
• Some bits and pieces from galleries and museums (added 2024-10-28)
• Letting go, problems, happiness (added 2024-10-21)
• The Avoidance Alarm (added 2024-09-02)
• Seeing boundarylessness (added 2024-09-02)
• Thinking about flow states (added 2024-08-25, updated 2024-08-27)
• Always and already (added 2024-08-24, updated 2024-08-25)
• Self-acceptance practices (added 2024-08-18)
• Spaciousness, openness, and not-this (added 2024-03-05, updated 2024-08-11)
• Revisiting rest (added 2024-07-27, updated 2024-08-11)
• Reflections (added 2023-07-29, updated 2024-07-29)
• My pattern / skillset (added 2023-04-24, updated 2024-07-28)
• Together in the middle (added 2024-07-19, updated 2024-07-27)
• It's a bit like surfing (added 2024-07-19, updated 2024-07-20)
• Thinking and not-thinking (added 2024-07-04, updated 2024-07-09)
• Shifts (added 2024-04-23, updated 2024-05-24)
• My philosophy, another spiral (added 2024-04-03, updated 2024-05-13)
• The three Os of letting go(s) (added 2024-05-07)
• Applied Philosophy for 2024 (added 2023-12-31, updated 2024-04-28)
• Daoism – Alan Watts (added 2024-04-12)
• Some nondual glimpses (added 2024-01-27, updated 2024-04-07)
• Happiness, and our ideas (added 2024-04-05, updated 2024-04-07)
• The Map Is Not the Territory (added 2024-04-06)
• But wait, there's more (added 2024-04-05)
• Enneagram characteristics (added 2024-04-03)
• Acceptance and opening (added 2024-03-09)
• Argument and Conflict (added 2024-02-25)
• Lenses (added 2024-01-20)
• Fruitful (added 2024-01-14)
• Valued action for January 2024 (added 2023-12-31, updated 2024-01-01)

Notes from books, articles, talks

• Emotional Intelligence (added 2024-12-14)
• Not (from the Tao Te Ching) (added 2024-11-29)
• William James on Mystical Experience (added 2024-11-28)
• Notes from I Still Suffer - The Ten Thousand Things (added 2024-11-22)
• Notes from "Understanding Animals" (added 2024-11-09)
• Notes from "Death: The End of Self-Improvement" by Joan Tollifson (added 2024-09-26, updated 2024-10-19)
• Notes from Meditations for Mortals (added 2024-10-16)
• Notes from "The Search for Stillness in a Mad, Mad World (added 2024-10-12)
• Notes from "Tao Te Ching", Dale edition (added 2024-10-11)
• Notes from "A Summary of Existence" by Darryl Bailey (added 2024-10-05, updated 2024-10-11)
• Notes from The Creative Act (added 2024-09-08)
• Notes from Right Thing. Right Now. (added 2024-09-08)
• 5 keys to becoming a meditation teacher (added 2024-09-08)
• Notes from various Tara Brach talks and books (added 2024-09-03, updated 2024-09-04)
• Notes from John Astin sessions (added 2024-08-25)
• Notes from The Mirage Of Memory by Robert Saltzman (added 2024-08-22)
• Notes from Playing by Our Own Rules - Models in Virtue Ethics from Stoicism for Humans (added 2024-08-22)
• Notes from One Bottomless Moment (added 2024-08-22)
• The Practice of Life (added 2024-08-18)
• Notes from "Open Aware Presence" (added 2024-08-10, updated 2024-08-11)
• Notes from Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity (added 2024-08-10, updated 2024-08-11)
• Notes from "A Tragic Sensibility" on "The Ten Thousand Things" (added 2024-08-10)
• Notes from Quantum Questions (added 2024-08-04)
• Reflective Meditation (added 2024-06-30)
• What's It All About? (added 2024-06-14)
• Everything is not illuminated (added 2024-05-24)
• The Doorway to Now (added 2024-05-18)
• Notes from "Right Now, Just As It Is" (added 2024-04-28)
• Painting the Sidewalk with Water (added 2024-04-20, updated 2024-04-24)
• The Matter With Things: revisiting some Part 3 notes (added 2024-04-15)
• The Importance of the Body (added 2024-03-14)
• The Headless Way: A Conversation (added 2024-02-19)
• Experiments in Having No Head (added 2024-02-13)
• Notes on Radical Honesty (added 2024-01-20)

Buddhism

• After Buddhism (added 2024-11-28)
• Retreats (added 2024-03-31, updated 2024-11-24)
• Notes from "What is this?" (added 2024-11-17)
• Notes from Revamp: Writings on secular Buddhism (added 2024-11-10)
• Notes from "The Myth of Freedom" by Chögyam Trungpa (added 2024-11-03)
• Notes from "Meditation in Action" by Chögyam Trungpa (added 2024-10-28)
• Notes from "The Bodhisattva Vow" (added 2024-10-11)
• Awakening your Everyday Bodhisattva (added 2024-09-08)
• My mirror Metta (added 2024-08-19)
• Notes from Clear Sky Mind day retreat (added 2024-07-07)
• Notes on the intoxication precept (added 2024-05-03, updated 2024-05-13)

OMB

• ✔ Keep Going: a guide to continuing meditation in good times and bad (OMB session) (added 2024-12-05, updated 2024-12-08)
• ✔ Answerable and unanswerable questions (or: A different kind of Quiz Night) (added 2024-09-05, updated 2024-09-25)
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: OMB session (added 2024-08-30, updated 2024-09-21)
• Begin Againners Mind (added 2024-08-27, updated 2024-08-29)
• ✔ OMB TSOA notes (added 2024-06-10, updated 2024-06-12)
• ✔ The Spectrum Of Awareness (added 2024-05-19, updated 2024-06-10)

IFS-ish

• The Constable (added 2024-03-12, updated 2024-09-23)
• The Comedian (added 2024-07-13, updated 2024-09-03)
• Notes from IFS reading (added 2024-01-22, updated 2024-01-28)
• Self-compassion (added 2023-08-13, updated 2024-01-04)

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