From the Pure Land
Mel PineFrom the Pure Land is a Substack about living in joy with guidance from Buddhism and other wisdom traditions.
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Nothing to Get Used To
Depiction of sunrise on the Ganges
A note I saved long ago resurfaced this morning: Tilopa’s pith instructions, from the song he sang to Naropa on the banks of the Ganges some nine centuries back. Renderings vary. Here’s one that stays a l...
The Safety Net That Never Runs Out
The Buddha Amitabha is often depicted flanked by the bodhisattvas of compassion and wisdom.
Those of us who hang around in modern Western spiritual or self-help circles tend toward an obsession with pulling ourselves up by our own bootstra...
Can We Build the Pure Land Here?
Stairway leading to Nan Tien Temple in Berkeley, New South Wales, Australia.
I often say that billions upon billions of words have been written to explain what can’t be explained in words, but an article in Buddhistdoor Global about the re...
Does It Matter What You’re Made Of?
A word I had never seen before showed up this week in the title of a serious academic paper: substratism. It appeared in Computers in Human Behavior, a peer-reviewed journal, attached to five preregistered studies with 2,129 research subjec...
The Theater of Non-Self
Increasingly, the study of AI “minds” is teaching us about our own. And what we’re learning about how minds work isn’t surprising to those who have studied Buddhism. Yesterday, Anthropic released a research paper that may be a major breakth...
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