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Millennial Buddhist teacher & scholar sharing reflections—and shamelessly announcing his teaching activities.
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Early Buddhist Hedonism (opens the original)
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This year sees the publication of my first two books. Living Life on Life’s Terms: Turning the wheel of secular dharma is a collaborative book based on transcribed dharma talks. I wrote about it in this post, including a link to a 56-page sample.As happy as I am about this publication, on many levels, in my mind what will always feel like my first book is the one stemming from four years of research, countless hours spent at my desk, and almost a year living in an
Bhikkhunī ordination challenges awakening (opens the original)
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Many of you will be aware of the sad controversy around whether women in the Theravāda tradition can receive full ordination and become bhikkhunīs, the female equivalent of bhikkhu. If you don’t, a good place to start might be Bhikkhu Bodhi, as well as Anālayo and the different view of Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. But let me give an extremely brief and undeta
Dharma practice is harder now (opens the original)
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I’m generally allergic to dharma event titles that include phrases like “in uncertain times”, as if ours were a privileged bad era. During covid, I made the point in my Spanish blog that the world was no more unpredictable and uncertain then than at any other given time, because those terms are not about whether a tragedy is happening right now, but about how it always can happen. It’s an ever-present potential. The only ‘uncertain times’ there exist are what’s called “life̶
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