Painting Silence
Otto the RenunciantPhilosophy, music, art, and cultural commentary with a contemplative Buddhist influence.
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Music: "Colors"
I recommend listening with eyes closed and with good speakers/headphones.
If you’ve been subscribed for a while, you’ll notice that I posted this last year. I listened to it again recently and noticed some things I really wanted to change...
St. Pio, Stigmata, and Psychogenic Wounds
I’ve been meaning to write about the Buddhist view of Catholic miracles since Ethan Muse published his first post on Fatima, but I’ve kept putting it off, as I haven’t wanted to get embroiled in interreligious conflicts. Seems a bit spiritu...
Disattending From, Attending To: Tacit Knowing, Ignorance, and Liberation
In much of my writing on here, I’ve touched on a recurring point: that the overcoming of ignorance (and the liberation that comes from it) is not the acquisition of some new piece of knowledge or a specific spiritual experience, but instead...
Optimizing Shame
Last week, made a solid post about what he calls “indulgent asceticism”, a cycle that many of us are likely familiar with: decide you want to give something up, set an unrealistic cold-turkey goal, feel good after you’ve abstained for a wh...
How Buddhist Is Jhāna? The Question of Secular Absorption
This post is long, so it might be cut off in your email. Read it online or with the Substack app for the best experience.
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The base claims about secular and cross-traditional jhāna, as presented by Jhourney
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A Buddhist writing at the border of philosophy, art, and religion. I'm not a monk — my name is aspirational, a sort of alter ego. Renunciation is a process I engage in, not a final goal I've reached.
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