Each piece follows a tension in mindfulness practice to its conclusion — the places where the teaching gets strange, and what to do about it.
An atheist can't fear hell — not won't, can't. Something similar happens when the sense of self dissolves. A mapping of the beliefs that become structurally incoherent.
Read essayThe teaching says what you're looking for is already here. The product says come back tomorrow for more. At some point, that tension is worth sitting with.
Read essayMedicine has dosage. Physical training has enough. Mindfulness, somehow, does not. The case for treating meditation like medicine, not vitamins.
Read essayYou want equanimity about your insecurities but not your ambitions. As if the insight into self somehow knows which parts to dissolve. You can't be an atheist about every god except one.
Read essayThe skill you developed to be more present quietly becomes the thing pulling you away from your obligations. When does a practice become an escape hatch?
Read essayAt some point the urgency to practice disappears. Not because you've failed at it. Because you've succeeded. What happens when "always available" means "never necessary"?
Read essaySome Buddhist claims you can test in a single sit. Others require a cosmology. The Bodhisattva vow — to liberate all sentient beings across infinite lifetimes — is worth inspecting to see which side of that line it falls on.
ReadThe non-dual insight gives you a true answer to this question. The problem is that it doesn't fit what anyone is actually asking.
ReadThe term is everywhere in contemplative practice. A breakdown of what it actually points at, why it's a negation rather than an assertion, and the three stages most people don't know to look for.
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