Oct 31, 2024
46 stories
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On emptiness, impermanence, clinging, release, and the eightfold path: How to heal yourself from anxiety, suffering and feeling loss of control.
Notes about perfectionism and the limits of meritocracy, with thoughts on parenting in a meritocratic environment
Triggered by an art show at the Singapore Design Centre: on perfectionism, the limits of meritocracy, and a theory of perfections in Buddhist paramita literature.
On being less than perfect in a world obsessed with healthist and ageist paradigms
A brief manifesto for taking one's life in one's own hands - and being an 'activist' on the road to happiness and freedom.
An exploration of meaning, with stopovers in Taoism, Buddhism, the Chāndogyopaniṣad, the Nāsadīya Sūkta from Rigveda, and Martin Heidegger's concept of aletheia.
If everybody can draw and paint, then everybody can write. A brief essay on walking and writing as a lifestyle.
Waka poetry by the Zen Master Dōgen Zenji 道元禅師 (1200 – 1253), and how Dōgen's poems aren't really poems. With reference to the work of Watsuji Tetsurō.
