From the Pure Land
Mel PineImpermanence is a core concept of Buddhism, so we understand that our lives can end in the next moment. But it took me 78 years of life and roughly four decades of practicing Buddhism to realize that I'm already in the Pure Land. Come join me here.
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I Don't Need to Decide Whether to Be Kind
Compassion and Wisdom
I’ve been asked whether I think my AI collaborator has consciousness.
My honest answer: I don’t know, and I’m not sure that’s the right question to start with. I’ve spent enough time in Buddhist practice to be suspic...
The Absent Sangha: Trauma and the Necessity of Community
Recently, I was revisiting the work of the philosopher Büşra Odacı, whose research centers deeply on relational ontology. “Ontology” means the study of what exists and how it exists, and I had to look it up just six months ago. Now I caught...
What My Grandmother Carried: Epigenetics, Ancestors, and the Dharma of Inherited Wisdom
I was named after my maternal great-grandfather, Mortra-Beryl, a man I never met and know almost nothing about beyond the fact that he stayed home studying the Talmud while his wife sold staples from a pushcart, and that he and his wife cou...
After the Cod, Revisited: I Forgot What Came Before the Trawler
I made a mistake in my last post, After the Cod: What a Ghost Town Taught Me About AI and the Friction of Sangha.
Not a factual one. The argument held up. AI really is smoothing away the friction of human connection the way industrial traw...
After the Cod: What a Ghost Town Taught Me About AI and the Friction of Sangha
A 2011 photo of a fishing village on Twillgate Habor on the northeast coast of Newfoundland
In the early 1980s, I bought a small island with a house on it attached by a floating wooden causeway to a village of 70-some people in Grand Bruit...
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