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Zen

  1. Empty (added 2025-01-01, updated 2025-01-11)
  2. Rōhatsu (added 2024-11-27, updated 2024-12-08)
  3. Bodhisattva (added 2024-11-26)
  4. Zen Peacemakers Rule and Precepts (added 2024-10-17)
  5. The "just" in "just sitting" (added 2024-05-28, updated 2024-09-10)
  6. Zen Koans (added 2024-04-25, updated 2024-08-14)
  7. Notes from six months of studying and practicing Zen (added 2024-07-07, updated 2024-07-13)
  8. Self-fulfilling activity (added 2024-07-07)
  9. Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (added 2024-03-31)
  10. Acceptance (added 2024-03-09)
  11. Zen (added 2024-01-10, updated 2024-02-24)
  12. Some Zen Practices (added 2024-01-06)

Longer form

  1. Tworaits (Traits 2, the sequel to Traits) (added 2025-01-16, updated 2025-01-18)
  2. Traits (added 2024-12-15, updated 2025-01-06)
  3. How would you advise a friend? (added 2025-01-06)
  4. My burnout safeword is Potato (added 2022-12-17, updated 2025-01-03)
  5. Tension (added 2025-01-01, updated 2025-01-02)
  6. The three uhds (added 2024-07-04, updated 2025-01-01)
  7. Antifragile (added 2024-12-29, updated 2024-12-30)
  8. Yield word salad (added 2024-12-27)
  9. Layers (added 2023-01-30, updated 2024-12-27)
  10. LSD (added 2024-08-13, updated 2024-12-26)
  11. The ends of various seesaws (added 2024-12-23, updated 2024-12-25)
  12. Like a net in a river (added 2024-12-24)
  13. Like a ball in a pinball machine (added 2024-12-24)
  14. Unfinishableness (added 2024-12-22)
  15. Trusting the Gold (and related) (added 2024-12-22)
  16. Precepts remixing (added 2024-12-20)
  17. Gates, fields, paths (added 2024-12-19, updated 2024-12-20)
  18. Direction (/stance) word salad (added 2024-12-19)
  19. Wider RAIN practice (added 2023-12-04, updated 2024-12-17)
  20. Getting in and out of the way of happiness (added 2024-12-16)
  21. Self-acceptance, another round (added 2024-12-15)
  22. Restless word salad (added 2024-12-14)
  23. My (applied) philosophy (added 2024-07-07, updated 2024-12-14)
  24. Useful word salad (added 2024-12-13)
  25. Mistakes, perfection, forgiveness (added 2024-12-02)
  26. This is it (added 2024-11-30)
  27. Paradoxes (added 2024-11-24)
  28. Some bits and pieces from galleries and museums (added 2024-10-28)
  29. Letting go, problems, happiness (added 2024-10-21)
  30. The Avoidance Alarm (added 2024-09-02)
  31. Seeing boundarylessness (added 2024-09-02)
  32. Thinking about flow states (added 2024-08-25, updated 2024-08-27)
  33. Always and already (added 2024-08-24, updated 2024-08-25)
  34. Self-acceptance practices (added 2024-08-18)
  35. Spaciousness, openness, and not-this (added 2024-03-05, updated 2024-08-11)
  36. Revisiting rest (added 2024-07-27, updated 2024-08-11)
  37. Reflections (added 2023-07-29, updated 2024-07-29)
  38. My pattern / skillset (added 2023-04-24, updated 2024-07-28)
  39. Together in the middle (added 2024-07-19, updated 2024-07-27)
  40. It's a bit like surfing (added 2024-07-19, updated 2024-07-20)
  41. Thinking and not-thinking (added 2024-07-04, updated 2024-07-09)
  42. Shifts (added 2024-04-23, updated 2024-05-24)
  43. My philosophy, another spiral (added 2024-04-03, updated 2024-05-13)
  44. The three Os of letting go(s) (added 2024-05-07)
  45. Applied Philosophy for 2024 (added 2023-12-31, updated 2024-04-28)
  46. Daoism – Alan Watts (added 2024-04-12)
  47. Some nondual glimpses (added 2024-01-27, updated 2024-04-07)
  48. Happiness, and our ideas (added 2024-04-05, updated 2024-04-07)
  49. The Map Is Not the Territory (added 2024-04-06)
  50. But wait, there's more (added 2024-04-05)
  51. Enneagram characteristics (added 2024-04-03)
  52. Acceptance and opening (added 2024-03-09)
  53. Argument and Conflict (added 2024-02-25)
  54. Lenses (added 2024-01-20)
  55. Fruitful (added 2024-01-14)
  56. Valued action for January 2024 (added 2023-12-31, updated 2024-01-01)
  57. My philosophy (added 2023-12-29, updated 2023-12-31)
  58. Philosophical systems (added 2023-12-14)
  59. Spiralling towards clarity (added 2023-12-06)
  60. Silence, stillness, slowness (added 2023-12-05, updated 2023-12-06)
  61. Gym as analogy (added 2023-12-03)
  62. Compassion and conflict (added 2023-11-18, updated 2023-11-21)
  63. Mindfulness for exhausted people (added 2023-11-18, updated 2023-11-19)
  64. Vowlued action: Valued action / vow remix (added 2023-11-18)
  65. Big Ideas (added 2023-10-28)
  66. Integral Insights maps (added 2023-10-23)
  67. Valued Action, September 2023 (added 2023-09-03, updated 2023-09-24)
  68. Formative Influences (added 2023-09-01)
  69. AI and ethics (added 2023-06-23, updated 2023-08-11)
  70. Process / Approach / Big Ideas (added 2023-07-22, updated 2023-08-05)
  71. Relaxed, creative, practice (added 2023-07-31)
  72. Some "nots" (added 2023-07-30)
  73. Self: perception and illusion (added 2023-07-29)
  74. Pre-retreat grips (added 2023-07-28)
  75. Capitalism (added 2023-07-02)
  76. Valued Action, May 2023 (added 2023-05-07, updated 2023-05-29)
  77. Money and companies (added 2023-05-24)
  78. Reality, Experience, (Inter)actions (added 2023-04-24)
  79. Before thoughts (added 2023-03-23)
  80. How I take notes (added 2023-02-14)

Buddhism

  1. After Buddhism (added 2024-11-28)
  2. Retreats (added 2024-03-31, updated )
  3. Notes from "What is this?" (added 2024-11-17)
  4. Notes from Revamp: Writings on secular Buddhism (added 2024-11-10)
  5. Notes from "The Myth of Freedom" by Chögyam Trungpa (added 2024-11-03)
  6. Notes from "Meditation in Action" by Chögyam Trungpa (added 2024-10-28)
  7. Notes from "The Bodhisattva Vow" (added 2024-10-11)
  8. Awakening your Everyday Bodhisattva (added 2024-09-08)
  9. My mirror Metta (added 2024-08-19)
  10. Notes from Clear Sky Mind day retreat (added 2024-07-07)
  11. Notes on the intoxication precept (added 2024-05-03, updated )
  12. The six mantras of Loving Speech (added 2023-08-02)

OMB

  1. Ideas for OMB sessions (added 2024-10-03, updated 2025-01-18)
  2. Keep Going: a guide to continuing meditation in good times and bad (OMB session) (added 2024-12-05, updated 2024-12-08)
  3. Answerable and unanswerable questions (or: A different kind of Quiz Night) (added 2024-09-05, updated 2024-09-25)
  4. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: OMB session (added 2024-08-30, updated 2024-09-21)
  5. Begin Againners Mind (added 2024-08-27, updated 2024-08-29)
  6. OMB TSOA notes (added 2024-06-10, updated 2024-06-12)
  7. The Spectrum Of Awareness (added 2024-05-19, updated 2024-06-10)
  8. "The Headless Way" session for One Mindful Breath (added 2023-09-17)

IFS-ish

  1. The Constable (added 2024-03-12, updated 2024-09-23)
  2. The Comedian (added 2024-07-13, updated 2024-09-03)
  3. Notes from IFS reading (added 2024-01-22, updated 2024-01-28)
  4. Self-compassion (added 2023-08-13, updated 2024-01-04)
  5. Grips for the Critic / Coach coin (added 2023-10-10)
  6. Inner Critic (added 2023-10-01)

Collections

  1. Acceptance and resistance (added 2023-12-03)
  2. Inaction and Underneathness (added 2023-11-13)
  3. Buddhist ideas (added 2023-05-31, updated )
  4. Grips, October 2023 (added 2023-10-01)
  5. Self-consciousness and the self (added 2023-09-01)
  6. Countdown grips (added 2023-08-20)
  7. Self-acceptance (added 2023-08-13)
  8. Collapsing (added 2023-07-30)
  9. Rest and peace (added 2023-07-16)
  10. Nondual practice (added 2023-07-16)
  11. Wu wei (added 2023-05-24, updated )
  12. Competitiveness (added 2023-07-03)
  13. The Whole (added 2023-05-23, updated )
  14. The Headless Way (added 2023-06-16)
  15. The Tao (added 2023-05-30)
  16. Free Will and Self (added 2023-05-30)
  17. Why can't it be both? (added 2023-05-24)
  18. The Matter With Things (added 2023-05-24)
  19. Not having a problem (added 2023-03-30, updated )
  20. No-Self (added 2023-04-16)
  21. Consciousness (added 2023-04-07)
  22. The Palliative Society (added 2023-03-30)

See also

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